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Behold: THE LAST ONE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29 > The Last One is a c
by msla 4y ago
Behold: THE LAST ONE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29
> The Last One is a computer program released in 1981 by the British company D.J. "AI" Systems.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Now obsolete, it took input from a user and generated an executable program in the BASIC computer language.
It was THE LAST ONE because it was the last program you'd need to buy. FOR-EV-ER. While its baseball-eating ability was unknown, it was "all the programs you'd ever need for £260" and it apparently focused on ETL jobs; that is, extracting data from files, transforming it, and loading it into some other file. Talend for the Doctor Who set, in other words, and it was set to EX-TER-MI-NATE programmers. Maybe it did; after all, we don't very well write programmes, now, do we?
https://modeling-languages.com/last-one-code-generator-basic-1981/ https://modeling-languages.com/last-one-code-generator-basic...
https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1981-02 https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1981-02
It certainly got a lot of hype at the time but, like all Coming Things, it's hard to tell where it Went.