SPAM-LOW: Re: XT 5160

[Vintage Computer Festival]

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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