Such a shame Clipper and Delphi didn't worked out. In early 90s my uncle (now 60 years old electrical engineer) taught himself clipper from 0 (no programming b

Such a shame Clipper and Delphi didn't worked out. In early 90s my uncle (now 60 years old electrical engineer) taught himself clipper from 0 (no programming background whatsoever, and no English language) and wrote a software for capturing and analysing temperature curves of polymer ovens at a factory where he works that is still used to this day. They keep a DOS PC just to run it :) I don't think it's possible to do this with modern programming technology, there's too many layers of abstraction and unrelated asides blocking people from "just making it work".