A good first step would be an IDE/Editor that can manage all of the code in a database and allow the programmer to dynamically construct queries to build views and otherwise manipulate the code. The environment could then generate flat files in order to be compatible with current compilers. http://www.atalasoft.com/cs/blogs/rickm/archive/2008/06/06/why-are-our-programs-still-represented-by-flat-files.aspx He could be on to something… [...] Read More...