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More no-code than programming language but Lotus Notes totally blew my mind. Imagine going from pre World Wide Web - and for many companies pre-email - age of
by andrewstuart 2y ago
More no-code than programming language but Lotus Notes totally blew my mind.
Imagine going from pre World Wide Web - and for many companies pre-email - age of local area networks (for file sharing only) and 38.K modems directly to group and user oriented, email integrated, distributed, replicated, graphics and multimedia integrated, no-code, document oriented, user programmable, fully GUI, secure, distributed database applications.
Lotus Notes blew my mind completely. A truly amazing application at the time.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI wrote a lot of code for lotus notes circa 1995 for an early web app. It was still code (lotus notes script), just that I had to figure out how to do things without loops and recursion.
- erik_seaberg 2y agoI thought LotusScript was a VBA clone, and it was the older Excel-like formula language that wasn't imperative.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI think it was imperative, but barely, like you could store things off in databases but that was it.