MODI STRU

by Ildar Akhmetov

A fun fact about Microsoft's 1990s database management system, FoxPro.

Did you know that in FoxPro (a database management system by Microsoft from the 1990s), the interpreter cared only about the first four characters of any keyword?

FoxPro
Microsoft's FoxPro.

For example, instead of MODIFY STRUCTURE, you could write MODI STRU.

So, reading FoxPro code was... fun at times. It could be full of commands like:

- REPL
- APPE
- CREA
- BROW
- DELE

FoxPro was fun, I miss it sometimes.

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