If you can remember the days when applications like Lotus 123 had menus at the bottom of the screen, and if you can imagine a macro scripting language in such a

If you can remember the days when applications like Lotus 123 had menus at the bottom of the screen, and if you can imagine a macro scripting language in such an application, designed so that the menu structure directly defined the statements available in the language (e.g. file open standard-view "c:\whatever.vw"), and if you can imagine writing database manipulation routines in such a language (so that you must at all times be mindful of which view is in the foreground and what the currently selected record is, i.e. which record the user would be looking at if this task was being carried out by an actual user rather than a macro script), and if you can imagine a manufacturing company who implemented their own MRP system atop such software, then you have the beginnings of an idea of what I'll be spending 2017 maintaining, and then hopefully decommissioning. Here's a mention of the software in question from the UK's Unix User Group newsletter in 1995: https://www.ukuug.org/newsletter/linux-newsletter/linux@uk13/smartw.shtml https://www.ukuug.org/newsletter/linux-newsletter/linux@uk13...