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ASP.NET For Punchcard Programming
Recently I've been studying RPG II for the Infinite 36, an old IBM programming language that was designed for 80 column punchcards. RPG II is probably the most horrible programming language that man has ever devised. Sometimes your code is a single character which has to be in an exact column. There is also a fixed logic that you have to work around. But it is the matter of getting a character in the right column that gives me a pain. The Infinite 36 is an old emulator of the IBM System 36 for the PC. It has some green screen RPG editors but I prefer to use UltraEdit.
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ASP.NET And Legacy MS-DOS Applications
I'm currently studying FoxPro 2.6. For MS-DOS. Yes, the company I am working for is still using applications written for FoxPro 2.6! I have to run this old MS-DOS database system in Virtual PC. So the last programming book I've read was Charles Siegel's Mastering FoxPro 2 written in 1991. The applications are completely undocumented (grrrr!) so my first step was to create a data dictionary (aka database schema). In FoxPro this can be done through the command DISPLAY STRUCTURE.