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> All those hideous higher level languages, lock ins they are, assembler is all you ever need! That is not a totally nonsensical remark. You could get userwishes during the time you maintain your application for which the language you use is not a good fit. I had one last month: realtime showing the progress of a running process (billing / invoice) in an openedge application. No, no band-aid with async appservercalls, not all customers have appservers. In another language I'm using this is not a problem (it has no appserver, it has multiple light-weight threads - up to hundreds of thousands, bidirectional communication via websockets easy). And I started building a bpms with a webinterface where soft-realtime communication is used a lot. For that other languages are suited, not openedge. Moreover for special uses cases services can be built in different languages. As you do when you call a C++ lib from oe f.e. Being aware of possibilities in other languages brings some freedom of choice. Tell me a about new enterprises in Holland that used that freedom to start a new application with openedge during the last five years. Also a longtime oe freelancer from Belgium told me last month no new projects start with openedge there .
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