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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Databases under UNIX-386
Keywords: database
Message-ID: <4525@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 89 01:59:09 GMT
References: <1652@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> <132@mdi386.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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Progress is rather nice in some ways, but the fact that it's a procedural
language without subroutines was ultimately VERY frustrating.  You could
construct macro-substitution templates which expand in-line into code,
which gives you a subroutinish feel, but all the versions of the language
I used (up to and including 4.0--I don't know what's current now) had a
strict 64K limit on compiled-byte-code size, which liberal use of macro
expansions would break.  Also, the lack of local variables was another pain.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu