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I too have labored in the hell that is 4gl Progress development. I did it long enough that I wrote a Progress-to-MariaDB replication daemon. That made it possible to actually get insightful reporting out of the mess that was the ERP system's database.

progress replication toolkit: https://github.com/hgrubbs/proreptk_community

I hope not, Google is the only reliable way to find what I'm looking for in their docs

Can you just use `site:` or whatever to narrow it down, if you're explicitly using Google to search a known target site (e.g. official docs)?

I've programmed in Progress for about 4 years (2006-2010). The language itself is far from awful. It's actually a well thought and easy to learn language. Everything not obvious in it is well documented.

What I didn't like about it was its very proprietary nature: closed source, its lack of libraries (no json parsing library back then IIRC), you'd have to pay even for its VM.

TBH, I found it more difficult to master Perl than Progress, but the effort was worth it.