PHP and filepro - login lesson

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 11:49:57AM -0400, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list
>thus spoke:
>> How many times have experienced programmers written code that had
>> security flaws?
>
>In my experience, most 'programmers' know their language, but are nearly
>completely oblivious to the systems for which they're programming.  This is
>extremely prevalent in the filePro community.  Lots of people can code
>business applications which work fine within themselves.  However, whenever
>they have to interact with anything else on the system outside filePro, the
>lack of knowledge really exposes itself, often in ways which present
>vulnerabilities.

I'll take this a step further, most programmers don't seem to
have a clue about workflow and business procedures so write code
that's difficult to use and error prone.  FilePro makes it pretty
easy for somebody who knows his business to create mostly working
systems without having to have a lot of programming skills.

The original Radio Shack/Tandy accounting software for Xenix on
the Model 16/6000s is a great example of software written where
the programmers didn't have a clue.  Data entry was cumbersome
with no ability to edit in fields other than to backspace and
start over, etc.  One of the first things I did when we had to
use this was to integrate it with FilePro so most of the data
entry and reports could be done in FP.  This required some rather
convoluted shell scripting, and sending and receiving data from
the Tandy accounting program via pipes.

Bill
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