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| Have recently browsed this group and it seems to differ from most of usenet
in that the requests and responses are pointed, civil and on-topic. I
apologise for the non-technical post.
I spent years working with Clipper from the first Summer 87 versions, and
even taught some introductory Clipper courses along with dBase III when
desktop database programs were the "new" rage. In computer years, that
makes Clipper (or at least it's ancestry) positively Neolithic. It's really
quite amazing that such a proliferation of Clipper programs still seem to be
in use.
This isn't a bash, rather it's Cudos to the original developers and a
software product that still has merit almost 20 years after its inception.
Cheers
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| Ross McKenzie 2005-10-19, 9:55 pm |
| On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:38:46 GMT, "GWood" <sorry@nothere.com> wrote:
>Have recently browsed this group and it seems to differ from most of usenet
>in that the requests and responses are pointed, civil and on-topic. I
>apologise for the non-technical post.
>
>I spent years working with Clipper from the first Summer 87 versions, and
>even taught some introductory Clipper courses along with dBase III when
>desktop database programs were the "new" rage. In computer years, that
>makes Clipper (or at least it's ancestry) positively Neolithic. It's really
>quite amazing that such a proliferation of Clipper programs still seem to be
>in use.
>
>This isn't a bash, rather it's Cudos to the original developers and a
>software product that still has merit almost 20 years after its inception.
>
>Cheers
>
>
Hi, and welcome back.
<g>....very hard to keep a good product down.
Whilst the original developers have all moved on to other things,
further work on the Clipper language is being done via the Harbour and
xHarbour teams. They have taken the language into the 32 bit and GUI
worlds. Worth lurking over there also.
Regards,
Ross McKenzie
ValuSoft
Melbourne Australia
valusoft AT optusnet DOT com DOT au
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| This group is not as active as it once was but there is still a ton of
good info deposited here on a regular basis.
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