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Not sure how much xBase code still runs out there to be maintained or rewritten. Depends on your market. At least here, the businesses that still ran xBase wer
by epx 6y ago
Not sure how much xBase code still runs out there to be maintained or rewritten. Depends on your market.
At least here, the businesses that still ran xBase were the ones unwilling or unable to pay decently for maintenance and/or migration, and that was the situation 10+ years ago.
Haven't looked into Harbour featureset, but I feel xBase in general is simply too simple for new developments. Even mom-and-pop stores need features way beyond the Clipper/MS-DOS capabilities.
The language is outdated, too; even Delphi/Lazarus sounds too 1990ish to me, I have fond memories of Delphi and Object Pascal but it is impossible to justify using them in a world with so many good new languages.