8 May
2005
8 May
'05
11:07 p.m.
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Jay West wrote:
Sad, but true. Pick was really an incredible database,
unfortunately they
added OS cruft to it in the beginning. By the time they stripped out the OS
stuff and made it run as a layer on unix & DOS/WIN, it was just too late.
Normally, accessing a real database inside of BASIC is rather a pain, and
you spend a lot of time thinking about other things than the application
problem at hand. With Pick, touching the database was so intuitive... like
programming with fine thin leather gloves on instead of mittens. The only
thing I wished they did different was tie the dictionary straight into
basic, as opposed to referencing via separate variables and the like. Yes,
you could program around this, but... twas the only shortcoming.
This is starting to sound like dBase/Foxbase/Foxpro/Clipper/etc.
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