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On Nov 2, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > The fun of developing in a system that didn't rely on > multiple languages, the modal dialogs were modal, > the statefulness was manageable, the security was > secure, a stylesheet was applied to a document not > a form, hyperlinks were old fashioned and only > used for TOCs and inverted indexes in the composition > engine, complexity was used to describe income > tax forms, we could buy a system from a vendor > that supported it for ten years, if you could master > the main function, the rest was easy, SQL was a novel > but useful toy, a path expression didn't look like > it derived its syntax from subway grafitti... Ahhh. The good old days.
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