Databases under UNIX-386

[Steve Dyer]

Progress is rather nice in some ways, but the fact that it's a procedural
language without subroutines was ultimately VERY frustrating.  You could
construct macro-substitution templates which expand in-line into code,
which gives you a subroutinish feel, but all the versions of the language
I used (up to and including 4.0--I don't know what's current now) had a
strict 64K limit on compiled-byte-code size, which liberal use of macro
expansions would break.  Also, the lack of local variables was another pain.
-- 
Steve Dyer
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