What a memory trip. In the late '80s a buddy was called to support an Altos with Pick running a system to help manage aircraft maintenance. His background had

What a memory trip. In the late '80s a buddy was called to support an Altos with Pick running a system to help manage aircraft maintenance. His background had been COBOL. It weaned him towards interpretive languages like its BASIC. He liked Pick and wanted me to go in with him to produce Pick/Altos software... but I convinced him instead to go in with me and build systems with PC clones and dBASE II (too flaky) then later the cloned FoxBase/Foxpro series. Clones upon clones.