RE: DIM question (Was MOVE/MOVEL and %Scan)

If we want to nitpick.....

In 1985, I was writing a full-blown accounting system in RPGII on the S/34,
that served a holding company and 25 subsidiaries.  It's still running today
on an AS400, unchanged.  How's your dBase app. doing?   :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [SMTP:jlangston@celsinc.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:50 PM
> To:   'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: DIM question (Was MOVE/MOVEL and %Scan)
>
> Keeping with the Nitpicking theme:
>
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
>
> > No other language provides the integrated database access
> > required to succinctly encapsulate the complicated database maneuvering
> > required for advanced business applications.
>
> Funny, I was writing a retail store application in dBase back in 1985ish.
> dBase integrates database access even closer than RPG does.  Not that I'm
> saying, by any means, that dBase is better than RPG, just that you're
> wrong,
> Joe :)
>
>


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