What's up with the perl market?

[AtW]

I remember dBase II...

Yes, me too - in USSR they ripped it off and used in Unis as "Rebus" - the interesting thing about dBase ][ is that there was no dBase I - the guy who made it thought it would be good marketing trick to pretend it is 2nd version of the product and thus it is more reliable: no wonder Microsoft switched to versions like Windows 2000!

Made quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC.

You mean config.sys!

[Euro-commuter]

And didn't it first come out as dBase II, there never actually ever being a dBase I?

Correct. They thought it would sound more advanced if it was taken to be the second version.