Linked by Jaapjan Tinbergen on Tue 20th Apr 2004 06:54 UTC
Visual Dataflex is a programming language of sorts which may be best described as belonging in the category of Visual Basic for Applications, the older style of Visual Basic and maybe even a very little bit of .Net. It's simple and good in what it does. Simple? Why! I hear you cry. Fear not, I will explain why I think this. First though, I'd like to touch on what it can do for you?
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Well, that reminds me of a company that I was working for before: they started somewhere in the 80s using a database system called ... Dataflex. They programmed everything in it, from stock management to billing to HR. Support for that version (some weird motorola UNIX or something) stopped, they ended up emulatin that on SCO, and finally emulating SCO. When I worked there a few years back the job was to emulate the whole lot on FreeBSD (it worked pretty well).
I think it was illegal to run it on any other architecture that the initial motorola minicomputer though ... and a company had been set up to collect a last bit of money through suing people who wanted to do that.