Bruce - excellent stuff. I remain truly surprised that the need for simple database application generators never really took hold. It seemed to me that Q&A had a smart idea, a word processor with a database that could easily create data-driven reports and correspondence. There were a handful of other of these products out there and I suspect that at one time Lew thought DP would be a part of DataPerfect per se. It's not that DP failed on it's own to capture a market, the entire product category failed to capture a market. Do you think a web-based application development tool could do much better?
*Don FriedmanProfessionalRecords.Com LLCPRS Data Systems* *205 S Main StreetPittsburgh, PA 15215412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax* On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Bruce Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > >
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