Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, at 08:35 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > It was completely crap Andy .... tried it once and then binned it..... > but then again it was only a free marketing aid. > > I stuck with the good old trilogy that you could do virtually anything > with: > > Wordstar > Supercalc (or Visicalc) > DBASE > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of AndyHC > Sent: 05 September 2017 16:11 > To: profox@leafe.com > Subject: Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy > > On 05-Sep-17 12:01 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: > >> there was also a product called > >> "The Last One" which said it would be the only programming product > >> you would ever need. > > Microsoft are still doing that. > > > <bg> > > I often wondered what happened to 'The Last One' - I never met anyone > who'd actually used it, possibly because the advertising was directed at > PHBs. > [excessive quoting removed by server]