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>I began programming at a large institution that chose (for them) boring technology; they got good results, but eventually had to build almost everything themse
by _-david-_ 4y ago
>I began programming at a large institution that chose (for them) boring technology; they got good results, but eventually had to build almost everything themselves because the software world had moved on and left them behind.
Can you expand on this? What was the boring technology?
- rossdavidh 4y agoA proprietary programming language called "Natural", and an associated database called "Adabas". Both actually had some advantages, and the internal culture had developed effective ways of working around their limitations, but being proprietary, and that old, had definite downsides.
- tim333 4y agoAh - you could argue having a proprietary programming language was interesting. Boring is PHP and mysql.