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    Who still puts comment in his/her source?

    I'm a last year student, and I have worked with progress (8.3 and 9.1) ... to make our application 'maintainable' we put in lots of comment (even a six-year old can find out what our application does ;) ) We've made it a good habit to put in a lot of comment, but now we are wondering how...
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    Disadvantages of PROGRESS databases

    We've just compared a delphi executable and a progress runtime, the delphi executable has three times the size of the progress-runtime but only half the functions ... still minimum doubling in size with progress runtimes (we even have things that expand up to six times original size ;) )...
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    Disadvantages of PROGRESS databases

    If You make a program with C++ the '.exe' is usually bigger than the original code, so it's quite likely that the '.r'-files tend to be bigger. :awink: But on the other side of the story : I 've also worked with ORACLE FORMS and there the binary files (original sources) are bigger than...
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    Disadvantages of PROGRESS databases

    Its quite easy to collect advantages of a Progress Embedded Database system and programming in Progress , but I wonder if there are more disadvantages than just this one I've figured out: "Progress does not create executables (.exe -file) so it is not possible to create an application and...
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