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Cos'era questo programma "The Last One"?

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Devil Master

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Dec 26, 2009, 2:32:10 PM12/26/09
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Nel sito http://thedailywtf.com (consigliato a chi vuol farsi quattro
risate leggendo chicche di idiozia programmatoria) ho trovato questa
retropubblicit�:
http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/ads/All-programs-you-need-BIG.png
Notare come viene descritto quel prodotto: un programma che crea
programmi in BASIC facendo domande in inglese. Ovviamente puzza di
bidone lontano un chilometro, ma qualcuno ne ha mai sentito parlare (o
ancora meglio, l'ha mai usato)? Cosa permetteva di fare, esattamente?

Cercando "the last one" su USPTO, ho visto che la richiesta di
registrazione del marchio � stata fatta nel 1981, il marchio � stato
registrato nel 1982 ed � stato abbandonato nel 1989.

Oracle

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Dec 26, 2009, 3:13:31 PM12/26/09
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On 26 Dic, 20:32, Devil Master <e...@rulez.4ever> wrote:

L'ho usato sull'Apple II e, come tutti i programmi che generano
programmi, creava del codice mostruosamente ridondante.
Comunque, vista l'epoca, era interessante, ci potevi creare dei
programmi di data entry e report tipo gestione della biblioteca, della
collezione di programmi etc.

Mauro


Oracle

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Dec 26, 2009, 3:25:44 PM12/26/09
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On 26 Dic, 21:13, Oracle <oraclemas...@inwind.it> wrote:

Veloce googlata:

http://www.tebbo.com/presshere/html/pw8102.htm

http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2007/07/the-last-one-pe.html


As an amusing lesson in such name choices, there was once a heavily-
marketed application generator named "The Last One", which generated
BASIC code for every major desktop platform of the time (Tandy, Apple
II, Commodore, CP/M). Here's a post-mortem from a 1996 DBMS magazine
article:

[Circa 1980], a short-lived British company (the name of which
escapes me now[*]) marketed an automatic application generator named
"The Last One." The company gave it that name because it claimed the
program was the last you would ever have to buy. If you had The Last
One, it would create any applications you needed from then on. Alas,
The Last One is no longer with us. It was not the last one.

[*] The company name was D.J.'AI' Systems, which sank from its brief
marketing-driven international prominence back into obscurity once it
became apparent that The Last One, wasn't. Ironically, The Last One
ultimately evolved into a successor named TLO Code Utilities for
Delphi.


Mauro

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