FUDLibrary - a user defined function library for Interbase 6
FUDLibrary is an open source library I wrote 15 years ago - my first open source contribution. At the time I intended to develop on the WindowsNT/Interbase/ACS/AOLServer stack. Unix was expensive, and Linux and Postgres were immature. However, in order to run this stack I needed to purchase a licence for UDF Library from Mer systems. Rather than purchase a licence, I chose to write an open source clone and add some additional features including soundex searching.
XUnit style unit testing was not yet mainstream, but I did write an extensive acceptance test script in Perl.
Unless you need a GPL C implementation of soundex searching it is probably now only of historical interest.
Rachel Bowyer
January 2015