It's bigger on the west coast of the USA than on the east, but when I was at
Volvo Truck NA we used DYL-280II for years; they still do as far as I know. It
was published at the time by DYLAKOR, who I think had some relationship with
Sterling Software. They touted it as a 4GL; it isn't, in my opinion, but it's
a very friendly 3GL. We offered a two-day class to users so they could learn
to write their own reports, and it was very popular. Developers could learn
the same content in half a day. (For the users I'd spend an hour or two on
sorting data, for example, going over variations, sorting on multiple field
ascending and descending. For the programmers I could pretty much just say
"...and this is what the SORT statement looks like", and give them 30 seconds
to contemplate it.)
I did a little googling and found one web page that says DYLAKOR is "no longer
active". Another one referred to "CA-DYL280".
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Chris Hoelscher
Sent: Tuesday, July 6, 2021 10:32
The site I support may soon be in the need for a load&go report writer
We would need an alternative to
Culprit
Eztrieve
Quickjob
Earl
Without any research - any other report writers come to mind?
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