[_jal]

Yep, me too. I worked at Sybase at the time, and installed it to use a beta PowerBuilder to (try to) build some internal tools. Granted, I in my early 20s and far less experienced with this stuff, but found PB utterly incomprehensible. Unix started making sense fairly quickly, although I still had years of learning ahead to get to competent.

Only later did I realize how odd it was that they had me doing that on a Mac. Those where the days where they had farms of various Unix workstations because they ported SQL Server to a ton of different platforms. I remember ending up in a storage room one day and there were piles of unopened Suns, Apollos, DECs, SGIs...

Slightly less of a commitment, there was also MPW, which was kind of unix-ish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...

[mleo]

PowerBuilder is a word I haven’t heard in a long time. My first job out of college at a tech consultancy was developing a PowerBuilder/Oracle application for a client. Tooling was terrible compared to today, but it was a great LOB development tool.

[tizio13]

Oh man, it took me a second to realize why I even recognized Sybase and Powerbuilder. My last job had me convert a bunch of PB reports into Crystal. My god I’m so glad the design of PB never caught on. Awful program