[fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 12/29/22 6:40 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
> I also had to learn that there are programmers that have not seen a single
> SQL statement in their life :)

i remember working on an inventory program using FoxBase from before m$ acquired 
it... i laid out the databases (now called tables) and drew the screens (now 
called forms) with the fields for all the information about the inventory 
item... i wrote report code the client requested so they could manage their 
inventory... imagine my surprise when i was in one day for some updates and one 
of the girls showed me some reports i had never seen or heard about...

turned out they were doing basic SQL queries for these reports to get "views" of 
the data that wasn't available in the specific reports i had been tasked to 
write... things were headed into a more "freeform" format... they basically 
needed databases with specific information that they could draw information from...

it was a huge mindset change... almost like having grown up doing pascal and asm 
and then trying to figure out LISP on your own in the same way you taught 
yourself pascal and asm...


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