alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (03/04/86)
I just read the recent summary of database info, and I can't resist adding my two cents on this, as it's something of a specialty of mine. First of all, RBASE 5000 is the most disgraceful, unprofessional piece of garbage I've ever seen in a relational database. I don't know what parts of Rbase the respondant in the query was using, but it has more bugs than I can count. SERIOUS BUGS, not little diddly stuff. A small part of a bug list would include: 1) Totally broken string handling. It doesn't understand nulls, it can't even pad out a string (it a