Unlike utilities like sed or awk, it can deal with patterns that span multiple lines, with nested constructs, and can use multiple sets of rules in different contexts. It makes extensive use of pattern matching somewhat related to that used in ML and Prolog. Quikcode - Free PC implementation of easy, yet powerful procedural IBM mainframe programming language Quikjob. Ronin Software Group. Table Oriented Programming - Programming that puts tables first.
Tables are a vital data representation method.