• @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Because the compiler was a 16-bit application

    Name the language, mate. This sounds a bit too insane to be true.

    • Blake [he/him]
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      11 year ago

      Yeah, it was called DataFlex. The vendor has released new versions of it called Visual DataFlex (VDF) and then renamed VDF back to DataFlex, but this language was what we called “character mode” DataFlex. It’s still used by the company as their main data entry application even today and a lot of their processes still are written in DataFlex. A lot of the work that my team did was rewriting a lot of the old crap in C#, but there was just so much of it built up over the decades.