clip vs harbour vs xharbour

Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?
Thanks.

Hello Michael,

> Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?

You can try a free demo of xHarbour Builder form
http://www.xHarbour.com/Demo.

The demo includes everything you need to start writing applications in
xHarbour. Let me know how it goes ok?

BTW, xHarbour has its own news group at news://news.xHarbour.com/xHarbour
--
Sincerely,

Patrick Mast,
xHarbour.com Inc.
http://www.xHarbour.com

broadly i could say, clip is a very very complete clipper compiler for
unix-like enviroments.
Harbour is a more traditional implementation but multiplatform, and
xHarbour is like Harbour but not restricted to clipper original
implementations.

two years ago, after using harbour and xharbour i decided to 'marry'
clip, and i'm very happy with my decision. their (clip authors) english
is worse than mine, and development is closed, but as compiler and
extensions imho clip is the best of the three.

http://www.itk.ru/english/index.shtml
http://www.xharbour.org/
http://www.harbour-project.org/

Michael,

> Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?

The only objective way to compare, would be to download all three and test
them against your code base, and expectations. Otherwise we all have our
personal preferences, which makes us biased.

If you have any technical questions, we may also be able to offer additional
information.

Ron

Thanks to all those who replied. I think I'll start by evaluating Clip.
Any tips or tricks to share anybody?

if you will try clip, http://www.itk.ru/clip-doc.en/prb.html is the
first chapter to read :-)

and here you can find a knoppix (linux livecd) with clip pre-installed,
good for first steps.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/...ip.iso?download

Good luck,
Alejandro Mery

Hello!

Is it possible to access Advantage Database Server with Clip?

Thanks, Roman

"Alejandro Mery" <amery@gs.cl> wrote in message news:1134594423.107421.222720@g49g2000cw
a.googlegroups.com...
> if you will try clip, http://www.itk.ru/clip-doc.en/prb.html is the
> first chapter to read :-)
>
> and here you can find a knoppix (linux livecd) with clip pre-installed,
> good for first steps.
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/...ip.iso?download
>
> Good luck,
> Alejandro Mery
>

yes, but i think only via odbc today.

clip has native support for mysql, postgresql, oracle, Interbase, odbc,
dbtcp and codb (a quite good object-oriented database coded in clip).
http://www.itk.ru/clip-doc.en/sql.html

i have never used "Advantage Database Server", but coding a library for
ads shouldn't be hard, the API is very well designed and you have the
other as examples :-)

Regards,
Alejandro Mery

Hello Michael,

> Thanks to all those who replied. I think I'll start by evaluating Clip.
> Any tips or tricks to share anybody?

When you are ready to start evaluating xHarbour. Please download the free
full demo from http://www.xHarbour.com/Demo.

We have a dedicated xHarbour DEMO support newsgroup at
news://news.xHarbour.com/xHarbour.Builder.Demo

The 'regular' xHarbour NG is at news://news.xHarbour.com/xHarbour

If you have any further questions or comments, please do not hesitate to
contact me.
--
Sincerely,

Patrick Mast,
xHarbour.com Inc.
http://www.xHarbour.com

Xharbour have a GT library (contrib) for very easy porting of clipper
application http://www.csacomputer.com/gtwvw/
Xharbour and harbour have support for ads by rdd .
In last year i have replaced some clipper application with xharbour



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> Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?
> Thanks.
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