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Hopefully it drowns out google results for OpenEdge ABL, formerly known as Progress. Awful 4GL programming language/database (don't ask me how I know).
by waffle_ss 8y ago
Hopefully it drowns out google results for OpenEdge ABL, formerly known as Progress. Awful 4GL programming language/database (don't ask me how I know).
- Eldt 8y agoI hope not, Google is the only reliable way to find what I'm looking for in their docs
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoCan you just use `site:` or whatever to narrow it down, if you're explicitly using Google to search a known target site (e.g. official docs)?
- tudorconstantin 8y agoI've programmed in Progress for about 4 years (2006-2010). The language itself is far from awful. It's actually a well thought and easy to learn language. Everything not obvious in it is well documented. What I didn't like about it was its very proprietary nature: closed source, its lack of libraries (no json parsing library back then IIRC), you'd have to pay even for its VM. TBH, I found it more difficult to master Perl than Progress, but the effort was worth it.
- module0000 8y agoI too have labored in the hell that is 4gl Progress development. I did it long enough that I wrote a Progress-to-MariaDB replication daemon. That made it possible to actually get insightful reporting out of the mess that was the ERP system's database. progress replication toolkit: https://github.com/hgrubbs/proreptk_community https://github.com/hgrubbs/proreptk_community