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I did my first internship working at Sybase on SQL Anywhere. Some great people worked at that office. Even some of the original Watcom guys were still there. F
by dblohm7 6y ago
I did my first internship working at Sybase on SQL Anywhere. Some great people worked at that office. Even some of the original Watcom guys were still there.
Fun fact: SQL Anywhere was still compiled using Watcom C++ long after the latter was discontinued as a commercial product. Most of the people who worked on the compiler still worked there, so they maintained it internally until SQL Anywhere finally switched over to MSVC.
- zaphirplane 6y ago> MSVC I thought it ran on multiple operating systems
- dblohm7 6y agoIt does. I'm referring to the Windows builds.
- hodgesrm 6y agoSQL Anywhere was wonderful, but Watcom C++ was horrible! When Sybase bought SQL Anywhere the compiler came along with it, hence was adopted as the in-house standard. As I recall the debugger would fail regularly due to pointer bugs corrupting the debugger itself. That's exactly when you would like the debugger to stick around... ;-)