A Brief History about Microsoft Dynamics AX and also a honoring of the team that build this great product - Peter Villadsen

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A Brief History about Microsoft Dynamics AX and also a honoring of the team that build this great product.
Author: Peter Villadsen
http://www.perfxit.nl/microsoft-dynamics-ax-wiki/

А я и не знал, что в Навике AL, а в Аксапте в пику ему XAL (eXtended Application Language).

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By any standards it was a very crude language, with Pascal-like syntax (Pascal was the popular language at the time, and served as the main inspiration for XAL), but its redeeming quality was that domain experts with limited computer science or programming background could write code in it. The programming model was based on triggers (what we would call events today). Developers typically inserted small snippets of code to be triggered when data was inserted, updated or deleted

Программисты, научившиеся программировать на XAL, так и продолжают программировать при помощи триггеров (Insert, Update, Delete) на X++.

Microsoft вернул парадигму программирования при помощи событий в новой версии AX 7, для того чтобы сохранить этих программистов на рынке труда.