Our recent discussion about running DP on modern machines has set me thinking (again--over the years I have thought about this often).
It is wonderful that we can still run DP and I am grateful to those who have made it possible through virtual machines. If anyone can think of an easy way to "port" DP to a more modern machine, I would love to be involved. Every idea that has occurred to me for doing this has so far turned out to be too difficult. Each time I have thought of how to automatically migrate existing DP applications to the more modern system. A modern DP would probably not be simply a "windows" version, but rather a rapid application development system for data-based browser applications. With over a decade of experience building web applications--in languages such as Perl, C, bash, Java, and JSP--I know how challenging this can be, and how definitely requiring skill as a programmer. For the first time, last week, I thought about the reverse process. That is, given a web application, what would it look like as a DP application. A couple of thoughts about this can be found at http://sanbachs.net/ha-then-now/index20150821.html and http://sanbachs.net/ha-then-now/ both based on (part of) a real web application. I just finished a brief nostalgic post about my experiences with DataPerfect, which includes a brief list of its features. If I have left out anything you particularly appreciate about DP, please comment about them. The post is at http://conwithoutcon.blogspot.com/2015/08/continuation-without-compulsion.html Many thanks and best wishes, Bruce
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