[AccessD] Code Tables

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Apr 24 13:06:33 CDT 2007


Clipper was a special case.  I never programmed in it, but I effectively
"debugged" commercial apps we used that were built in it. <groan>

Charlotte Foust 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Robert L.
Stewart
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Code Tables

Charlotte,

Personally, my Clipper stuff was normalized. The Fox guys thought they
could get away with the bad design because of the advantage that the
Rushmore technology used in the idexing gave to them.

Robert

At 12:00 PM 4/24/2007, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:58:01 -0700
>From: "Charlotte Foust" <cfoust at infostatsystems.com>
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Code Tables
>To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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>I seem to recall we did it that way in dBase too.  I think it was 
>pretty standard for all the xBase languages because it was so hard to 
>keep track of all the table files otherwise.
>
>Charlotte Foust


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