I've been using Clarion since back in the late 1980's (when it ran on DOS). Still using it to this day, and it earns me the majority of my revenues in my compa

I've been using Clarion since back in the late 1980's (when it ran on DOS). Still using it to this day, and it earns me the majority of my revenues in my company. Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion_(programming_language) The language itself is an amalgamation of COBOL, Pascal and C. But for me, the biggest advantage was the development environment. It was the first IDE that I came across back then that allowed a separation of the back end database from the actual front end code. I loved how easy it was to build applications using dBase, SQL, Btrieve etc. as the back end data store. Also loved how the business logic was defined in a 'dictionary' so that validation rules etc. could be centrally controlled. Still haven't seen a modern day framework that allowed this much control and flexibility. Clarion has had its ups and downs, but I think I will be still writing code in it until I retire...