On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 11:09:57 -0700, Ray Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For the young 'uns - there were always efforts to see how few lines an APL >program would be. I knew of someone who wrote an entire data base system in >a program that was about a half-page. It was a delimited data base, similar >to PICK. Reminds me of that Dilbert cartoon -- Wally: When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy "icons" and "Windows." Wally: All we had were zeros and ones -- and sometimes we didn't even have ones. Wally: I wrote an entire database program using only zeros. Dilbert: You had zeros? We had to use the letter "O". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
