I used Informix 4GL but the DOS based version (back in '86, 19 not 18!!) and
it was truely horrendous, it crashed for every reason imaginable and a few
you could never dream of. Our payroll and expenses system was written in it.
I dabbled in COBOL but I found I was growing a beard and starting to wear
Addidas Bethlahem so I stopped...went to desktop DBs after that (dBASE,
FoxBase etc.)
"hit any user to continue"
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Rachel,
Whats wrong with COBOL. I programmed with it in the early 70's and last I
heard the "root" module I write is still in use today(payroll for a Fortune
100 company). Later in life I programmed in INFORMIX 4GL on a DataPoint
server. It was replaced with an IBM 360 and they never got the application
to run as fast as the original.
ROR mª¿ªm
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hm, watch your back at IOUGA next year Joe :)
I am up there amongst the more "seasoned" members of this list.
I even (sh, don't tell anyone) programmed in COBOL.
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