[pjbster]

Hah! I feel exactly the same about Oracle Forms.

Never heard of it? 'twas a client-server development IDE which was based on the idea of a "data block", a true-blue bona fide Active Record implementation out in the wild around 8-10 years before Martin Fowler coined the name. Even then the world seemed unaware until Rails arrived.

[bandrami]

Allaire also had something similar in ColdFusion (holy crap am I dating myself here): call an array generator with a datasource as its backend and get an array of DB-backed objects you can iterate over.