RE: SAA Historical perspective and education

>> but while AS/400 programmers were
>> programming physical and logical files using DDS, the rest of
>> the world was using SQL.  Fortunately, the AS/400 finally
>> caught on and provided an SQL interface to its database.
That ends up to AS400 programming have two way to create/maintenance file (and
have thing SQL still miss, as logical view with Select/omit, or Union) whiel the
rest of the world have just one.

One can choose wich of two choose, and this is better for me that being forced
to go SQL "because all the world use it" (who cares? the rest of the world won't
work here, and, of course, they're wrong  :-)))

I always prefer have more choice than I can, and i remember IBM once upon a time
give that to the programmer/user. Now they turn it other way.