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This was before an official release, late 1990s. I'm sure he'd gotten his hands on either some documentation discussing the concept, or an early alpha release o
by jagged-chisel 7y ago
This was before an official release, late 1990s. I'm sure he'd gotten his hands on either some documentation discussing the concept, or an early alpha release of Oracle's ApEx.
- dahdum 7y agoMight have been Oracle Web DB, it predated the APEX line but was roughly the same concept and released in the late 90's.
- jacques_chester 7y agoOh very possibly. Wikipedia reckons HTML DB (the original package) was released in 2004, but the APEX website clear claims to being 19 years old, which would put it circa 2000. But in the meantime if you're doing late-90s CGI with Perl, why not `SELECT my_amazing_function()`?
- jagged-chisel 7y agoHey, buddy, we were cutting edge with the brand-spankin-new ASP! (Although, we did have a Perl guy who insisted we'd be renaming all our .asp files to .aspl because MS had 'opened up' the scripting engine to take whatever language you'd want to write an engine for ... and a Perl engine existed at that moment.)