D3

[Alma J Wetzker]

Vu Pham wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 17:43 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Vu Pham wrote:
>>> Just curious, how many you guys here use D3 ? I just got involved into a
>>> project with D3 and am looking for some "D3 for dummy" info.
>>>
>>> ( This relates to my previous question of Paralllels/Mac. My plan is to
>>> install Linux on a Macbook in order to install D3 and play with it ).
>> I don't even know what D3 is.  Care to enlighten us clueless folk.
> 
> Lonni, I don't think anybody who is younger than 40 knows D3 :)
> D3/Pick/Unidata/Universe ... are multi-value databases. Tables have
> records, records have fields, fields have subfields, subfields have
> sub-sub fields ... They use some language similar to Basic. That's all I
> know.
> 
> My company have a lot of customers using D3 ( www.rainingdata.com ) or
> Universe  but I have never had to learn it until today.

Ah, Now I understand.  I suggest leaving it alone, it will scar you for
life.  I learned Pick back in the DOS days.

    -- Alma