The first Progress release was 2.2 in 1984, but there was a version 1 before that, in 1983. It was never released. Here, for your extreme reading pleasure, is a photocopy pdf of the documentation for Progress Version 1. Rumor has it that it was written by Joe Alsop, but this has not been verified.
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ask-for ? (page 5, 1.5)
did that become prompt-for ?
On 26 August 2014 14:51, gus wrote:
> OpenEdge (nee Progress) Version 1 Documentation
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> The first Progress release was 2.2 in 1984, but there was a version 1 before
> that, in 1983. It was never released. Here, for your extreme reading
> pleasure, is a photocopy pdf of the documentation for Progress Version 1.
> Rumor has it that it was written by Joe Alsop, but this has not been
> verified.
>
> ProgressV1.0Doc-1983.pdf
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The first Progress release was 2.2 in 1984, but there was a version 1 before that, in 1983. It was never released. Here, for your extreme reading pleasure, is a photocopy pdf of the documentation for Progress Version 1. Rumor has it that it was written by Joe Alsop, but this has not been verified.
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Reply by Ken McIntoshWow! Good find! Thanks for sharing Gus!The ASK-FOR statement must have grown up into PROMPT-FOR. Does anyone remember this syntax? I wonder if it made it out of V1.Kenneth S. McIntoshPrincipal Technical Support EngineerPROGRESS SOFTWARE
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Subject: [Technical Users - OE General] OpenEdge (nee Progress) Version 1 DocumentationThread created by gusThe first Progress release was 2.2 in 1984, but there was a version 1 before that, in 1983. It was never released. Here, for your extreme reading pleasure, is a photocopy pdf of the documentation for Progress Version 1. Rumor has it that it was written by Joe Alsop, but this has not been verified.
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I've read years ago in some history document that one difference between version 1 and version 2.2 was the decision to change ASK-FOR to PROMPT-FOR.
Looks like
"SINGLE-FORMAT" became "1 DOWN",
"MULTI-FORMAT" became "DOWN" and
"<n> REPEATS" became "<n> DOWN".....
Wow! That's big fun for reading!
I took the freedom to OCR the PDF - in case someone wants to search for "FOR EACH Customer" ...