Therm-O-Link wrote:
>
> Tom writes:
>
> >We plan on replacing Growthpower within three years
> >simply because our volume is about to outstrip Growthpower's capacity.
> >(SO Number, Invoice Number, Customer Number, and so on are limited to 6
> >digits. Also, it's written in old classical HP basic).
>
> Do you mean that because it's not written in Java or whatever the "hot"
> language du jour is, it should be replaced?  I know that's not your primary

You gotta see a 900-series HP3000's reaction to classic Basic to believe
it. Brings that thing to it's knees. Glance reveals over 500 mode swaps
(Classic/Native) per second. What I meant was that ANYTHING is better
than this. All other languages have Native Mode compilers with identical
BNF grammars to their classic equivalents - even RPG. Not so classic
Basic. They have Native Mode Business Basic but it's BNF grammar is
totally alien to classic Basic. Can't recompile native. The object is so
strange, even OCTCOMP aborts.