Last Friday Steve correctly said that some consultant does
not know what s/he is talking about:

>> We here are Transact users (and love it), but we have a consultant
>> in trying to convince us that it is a dead language  (and that we
>> should move to PC based software).

> Your consultant is misinformed, confused, or worse. Transact/iX is
> very much not a "dead language".

> Consider: the Transact language has had more additions in the last
> five years than C, Pascal, FORTRAN, RPG, BASIC, or SPL. ....

Note that it's not just "has had":  The next major upgrade of
Transact/iX is now in beta test (I don't know release date target
off the top, but "soon", I believe).  This pending next release
incorporates two more functionality enhancements:

(1)  A FINDMODE option on the FIND verb, to allow high-level
use of all current *and* future TurboIMAGE database access
modes (including all B-Tree and TPI modes), without having to
resort to coding TurboIMAGE PROC calls.

(2)  The ability for Transact to import and use externally generated
database and File ID's (what HP has at least informally dubbed
"Open Transact").  This feature includes what was for many years
a separate request on the SIGRAPID enhancement list:  The ability
to defer database opens until a particular database is actually
needed by a database access verb.

With the addition of the above two enhancements, IMNSHO
Transact/iX enhances its position as the TurboIMAGE database
I/O language of choice on the 3000...

Ken Sletten