My projects were variously big. I think perhaps my largest project was rewriting a dBase III position budgeting/tracking system for the budget department of a state agency. They needed some mods, I printed the code and it turned out to be a gigantic loop! So I dumped the code and rewrote the whole thing to be modular. This was back in the late '80s. My co-worker wrote a really nice menu interface based on the Lotus 1-2-3 menu, and we implemented record locking and a full audit. It was a REALLY sweet system. I had regular meetings with the stakeholders, they were always in the loop, and they were over the moon when we deployed. I got a commendation from the head of the finance dept when we were done. I kinda wish I had the code, I'm wondering how much I would understand it! I haven't touched that language since then, I don't know if it really exists anymore with SQL and its offspring ruling the world now.
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Date: 2022-11-09 03:02 pm (UTC)My projects were variously big. I think perhaps my largest project was rewriting a dBase III position budgeting/tracking system for the budget department of a state agency. They needed some mods, I printed the code and it turned out to be a gigantic loop! So I dumped the code and rewrote the whole thing to be modular. This was back in the late '80s. My co-worker wrote a really nice menu interface based on the Lotus 1-2-3 menu, and we implemented record locking and a full audit. It was a REALLY sweet system. I had regular meetings with the stakeholders, they were always in the loop, and they were over the moon when we deployed. I got a commendation from the head of the finance dept when we were done. I kinda wish I had the code, I'm wondering how much I would understand it! I haven't touched that language since then, I don't know if it really exists anymore with SQL and its offspring ruling the world now.