RE: [sqr-users] RE: Hyphen history

["Wes Williams" <wes@Princeton.EDU>]

Wasn't it Sybase who originally developed and owned it, then sold it to
MITI? Israel Stern is who developed it. I used to have the version 1
book. But I must have misplaced it over the years.

Wes Williams
Manager Facilities Mgt. Systems
Princeton University
609-258-7027
 

-----Original Message-----
From: sqr-users-admin@sqrug.org [mailto:sqr-users-admin@sqrug.org] On
Behalf Of White, Denise
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:01 AM
To: SQR Users Group (E-mail)
Subject: [sqr-users] RE: Hyphen history

Interesting, Dave!  Thanks for the history!

Since you have the version 1 manuals, when was SQR first introduced, and
by what company?  The guy with the 'bad attitude' was also quite
scornful of my suggestion that MITI had originated SQR and said it was
around long before that company was.  I know it was MITI, then SQRibe,
then Brio (and now Hyperion?), but was it something else before that?
I'm afraid I haven't held onto any of my manuals prior to version 4, but
I think I started with version 2 (1994).  As this is the SQR users
group, hearing the history of the product is quite interesting!

Denise M. White
Sr. Software Engineer
Vicor 
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:42:45 -0800
To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
From: David Donnelly <Dave@isisbio.com>
Subject: [sqr-users] Hyphen history
Reply-To: sqr-users@sqrug.org

Ever wonder why that hyphen thing  (#count-1) is the way it is?

In its infancy, SQR didn't have expressions.  There was no "let"
statement, 
and "if" could only have simple expressions with one relation. These
were 
added in version 2, in 1990.  At one point, at least, there were error 
messages that SQR had made an assumption about whether you meant it to
be a 
variable or an expression.  Either that warning was removed, or I
finally 
got out of the habit of using hyphens in variable names.

Version 2 also brought dynamic variables, compiler directives, and
removed 
the need to put a hyphen at the end of the line if a statement continued
to 
the next line.

I still have the version 1 manuals.  We've sure come a long way.  The
Brio 
guy with the bad attitude was probably in third grade when SQR was
launched.

Dave

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