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by aruggirello 4189 days ago
> The misery is long past.

With legacy apps, your miserable past is usually somebody else's nightmarish present...

I had a funny - though unrelated - experience with RTF production a couple decades ago. To make things more interesting, we were using KnowledgeWare ObjectView for the job - a 16-bit RAD tool with a custom simil-VisualBasic syntax, and collecting data from a UNIVAC 1100. I moved to a different company about four years later, and later discovered ObjectView... oops, just ceased to exist. Phewwww!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KnowledgeWare