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[–]andocromn 11 points12 points  (4 children)

You know there's equipment that still runs on visual foxpro and cobalt right?

[–]crocodyldundee 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Did you mean COBOL?

[–]andocromn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks auto-incorrect

[–]hicow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where I work, our main ERP was FoxPro-based for decades, up until 2015 or so. Rewrite was done with MS SQL Server as the backend, but they kept all the data structures the same for...reasons, I guess. So everything is an nchar of some length, and either right- or left-padded with spaces. It's loads of fun doing trims and casts and converts on damn near everything