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My first dev job was working for a company that specialized in xBase apps. We had apps in dbIII, CA Clipper and FoxPro. We were working to move some of them to
by nobleach 6y ago
My first dev job was working for a company that specialized in xBase apps. We had apps in dbIII, CA Clipper and FoxPro. We were working to move some of them to Visual FoxPro 2.6. One of our Clipper apps was my first experience with porting an app to Delphi. I learned how to pump data from dBase dbf files into InterBase (and then FirebirdSQL). Those systems were so interesting because they were such a far divergence from what I thought software development would be. In college C and C++ taught me about how computers work. I never was able to make the jump to actually building applications. As the years went on, that company tried to make the jump into web via Perl:DBI, then PHP/MySQL. But they never had the success. I hear they tried to use Harbor Project (a popular Clipper clone-like thing for the web). What a great time to be in the industry.