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This is great. I am currently vibecoding a replacement connector for some old EDI software that is written in a business basic kind of language called ProvideX,
by calvinmorrison 1y ago
This is great. I am currently vibecoding a replacement connector for some old EDI software that is written in a business basic kind of language called ProvideX, and a fork of that has undocumented behaviour.
It uses some built inet ftp tooling thats terrible and barely works, even internally anymore.
We are replacing it with a winscp implementation since winscp can talk over a COM object.
unsuprisingly the COM object in basic works great - the problem is that I have no idea what I am doing. I spent hours doing something like
WINSCP_SESSION'OPEN(WINSCP_SESSION_OPTIONS)
when i needed
WINSCP_SESSION'OPEN(*WINSCP_SESSION_OPTIONS)
It was obvious after because it was a pointer type of setup, but i didnt find it until pages and pages deep into old PDF manuals.
However the vibecode of all the agents did not understand the syntax of the system, it did help me analyse the old code, format it, and at least throw some stuff at the wall.
I finished it up friday, hopefully i deploy monday.