Subj : hello! :DD
To   : Skylar
From : Ben Collver
Date : Tue Apr 16 2024 09:42:21

  Re: hello! :DD
  By: Skylar to Ben Collver on Mon Apr 15 2024 07:07 pm

How cool that your first dev work was in 1991!

What were you developing?

One of my first paid gigs was writing an accounting system in BASIC.
If i recall correctly, the old one was in BASIC too, but they wanted
it to do more.

Later, i wrote a production planning system in Paradox PAL.  It used
a relational database and recursive code to explode the BOM.  It way
outperformed its predecessor, which was written in C on a Xenix sys,
but the C version was entirely home-made where my version utilized a
lot of functionality built-in to Paradox.

I used list.com hex dumps to reverse engineer the database format, &
the shareware Desmet-C PCC compiler to write a program to export the
data to plain text, which i imported into Paradox.  I remember using
Borland grep.exe and i also remember using list.com multi-file views
to flip back and forth between old/new code listings page by page to
spot differences.  I didn't have a diff command at that time.

This was all within the confines of conventional memory and no mouse
pointer.
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