The syntax of FOCUS in its simplest elements is almost a direct clone of the syntax of RAMIS bearing a resemblance similar to the differences between various early dialects of SQL ).

RAMIS Software is a fourth-generation programming language capable of generating reports using simple language and many fewer lines of code than previous third-generation programing languages such as COBOL.

RAMIS stands for Rapid Access Management Information System.

Examples include RAMIS, FOCUS, SPSS, NOMAD, DB2, REXX, RACF, and OfficeVision.

RAMIS, the first 4GL, was the direct ancestor of FOCUS, having been principally developed by Gerald D. Cohen and Peter Mittelman while working at Mathematica Products Group in 1970.

Similar translation capabilities are being added to the BI translator for converting the other legacy 4GLs, such as RAMIS and FOCUS.

Another RAMIS successor was FOCUS, which evolved in competition with Nomad.

RAMIS was sold through to several companies, ultimately landing with Computer Associates.

The corporate view of Nomad's importance at the time – and of tensions with the owners of RAMIS – can be deduced from the original NOMAD acronym: NCSS Owned, Maintained, And Developed.

It was developed to supplant RAMIS, previously a major NCSS offering.

RAMIS and its most recent version dubbed RAMIS II were developed at Mathematica Products Group, in Princeton, New Jersey, in the late 1960s through the early 1980s.

RAMIS was available for purchase in a variety of environments, including ( starting in 1969 ) on a royalty basis from National CSS, Inc., on their proprietary time-sharing system.

In 1987 RAMIS was sold to Online Software International until it was acquired by its current owners, Computer Associates, Long Island, New York.

The theme of The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is most closely related to its immediate predecessor in Malraux's array of novels: Man's Hope ( 1937 ).

The medical device pirate of today, of course, is a far more sophisticated operator than his predecessor of yesteryear -- the gallus-snapping hawker of snake oil and other patent medicines.

The new regime in Turkey is intentionally less Muslim than its predecessor.

As with all binary trees, a node's in-order successor is the left-most child of its right subtree, and a node's in-order predecessor is the right-most child of its left subtree.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

A data format is also said to be backward compatible with its predecessor if every message or file that is valid under the old format is also valid, and retains its meaning, under the new.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

It is a predecessor of the post horn from which the cornet evolved and was used like a bugle to signal orders on the battlefield.

This argument is the direct predecessor of modern ideas of a brain in a vat and many popular conceptions of cyberspace take Descartes's ideas as their starting point.

The large, saltwater predecessor of the Dead Sea is called " Lake Lisan.

In physics, the dyne ( symbol " dyn ", from Greek δύναμις ( dynamis ) meaning power, force ) is a unit of force specified in the centimetre-gram-second ( CGS ) system of units, a predecessor of the modern SI.

Detroit is also the only member of the Western League, the AL's minor league predecessor, that remains in its original city under its original name.

The EPP Group is one of the three oldest groups, dating its origin back to September 1952 and the first meeting of the Parliament's predecessor, the Common Assembly.

Since the algorithm ensures that the remainders decrease steadily with every step, r < sub > k − 1 </ sub > is less than its predecessor r < sub > k − 2 </ sub >.

Thus, r < sub > k </ sub > is smaller than its predecessor r < sub > k − 1 </ sub > for all k ≥ 0.

Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils as amateurs.

The album is considered less inspired than its predecessor, but it is notable for the Parsons-Hillman-Leadon song " Older Guys " and for its take on Jagger and Richards ' " Wild Horses "— the first recording released of this famous song.

Nonetheless, legal experts from the mainland said it is a convention a successor will only serve the remainder of the term if the position is vacant because the predecessor resigned.

There is no proof that Herodotus derived the ambitious scope of his own work, with its grand theme of civilizations in conflict, from any predecessor, despite much scholarly speculation about this in modern times.

Information beyond nearest neighbor is carried second-, third-, and fourth-hand as a distortable rumor.

Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.

Information is also available from this autocollimator system to set the drift bias for the Z-axis gyro.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII, ;) is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet.

Information is presented in the following form:

The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office.

The official printed version is sold by the Government Printing Office and National Technical Information Service.

A similar view is adopted in Quantum Information Theories.

According to the Afghan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ( MCIT ), the geographical existence of Afghanistan is very valuable to connect all communications to this satellite.

Information is collected with handheld computers equipped with GPS receivers and digitized maps.

; Metadata: Information about program structure is language-agnostic, so that it can be referenced between languages and tools, making it easy to work with code written in a language you are not using.

Information richness or a map that is multivariate shows relationships within the map.

** Information Absorption: He is able to quickly absorb and store information.

In the Inmon vision, the data warehouse is at the center of the " Corporate Information Factory " ( CIF ), which provides a logical framework for delivering business intelligence ( BI ) and business management capabilities.

The data model in such products incorporates relations but is not constrained by E. F. Codd's Information Principle, which requires that

Information on the master version of the video tape is encoded in the DTMF tone.

Information is exchanged by passing messages between the processors.

The Bus Arrival Information Service is being rolled out which provides bus stops with information on the distance of buses based on GPS positions of the buses.

Information about the schools of the English Province is limited, but a few facts are known.

Information in the Micropædia is sometimes inconsistent with the corresponding Macropædia article ( s ), mainly because of the failure to update one or the other.

A popular expression claims that " all words ever spoken by human beings " could be stored in approximately 5 exabytes of data, ( although this project is now outdated and therefore not entirely accurate ) often citing a project at the UC Berkeley School of Information in support.

While a slight bow to the overall developer community to allow something looking like direct access ( e. g. thereby breaking the Information Hiding Principle ), the practice is dangerous as it hides or obfuscates the reality of a " setter " being used.

Information Processing Language ( IPL ) is sometimes cited as the first computer-based functional programming language.

Information is available however, just not readily available without these cues.

Information stored on Freenet is distributed around the network and stored on several different nodes.