Re: [OT] Business Requirements Analysis... Sort Of

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:25:43 -0300, Clark F Morris
<cfmpublic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:23:20 -0600, Robert <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>>much snipped
>>
>>I did that in the Good Old Days. My query program turned into DYL240,
which became DYL280,
>>now called Quick Job.
>
>DYL260 was expanded to DYL280 by DYLAKOR which bought out by ? which
>was bought out by CA.  I believe it is now Vision Results. 

DYLAKOR was founded in the late 60s by Wild Bill Newcomer, who 'borrowed'
my program from
Tabulating Consultants Inc (TCI). Something happened to Bill and the
company was taken
over by his daughter, Carole, who sold it to Sterling in 1983. Sterling
was acquired by CA
in the early 2000s.

DYL240 was a JIT compiler. It read the input script and spit machine
language into memory,
then executed it. It ran very fast, usually faster than an equivalent
Cobol program.
DYL260 was a complete rewrite in which they improved the language but also
turned it into
an interpreter. It ran as slowly as interpreted Basic. They should have
written a
compiler, as EZYTRIEVE did. 

> Quickjob
>was another predecessor of DYL280.

I see CA renamed Quickjob to Vision Sixty. There is also Vision Inquiry
for database
queries.

>  If the COBOL standards committee
>wanted to see a good way of doing re****t writing they should have
>looked at DYL280 which made Re****t Writer look dumb.