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The article presents a very distorted description.
I'm an attorney who works at a law firm whose owner insists on still using Q&A ver. 4, the DOS version that came out in 1991.

Q&A is not Y2k compliant. It does not have an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It does not have Application Programming Interfaces (API). It does not have a programming language. It does not have a query language. It does not have the ability to use computed fields. It uses a proprietary file format that cannot be read or written to by any other program except Sesame from Lantica, which was written specifically to be a Q&A replacement but never caught on. It does not have strong data-typing, i.e., you can have text in currency fields and number fields. It cannot interact with other file types, i.e.., it cannot open or read from .DBF or other files.

Although Q&A says it can output in .DBF format (DBase), when you try importing the ".DBF" into something like FoxPro, you get a message that the file is corrupt.

Through ver 4 it only allows a single "set" of up to 10 input sub-screens. That means that you cannot have a Users set of screens, an Administrator set of screens, etc.

Rick R, Dallas, Texas