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That is amazing to hear, I would love to get back to those years through some existing software. The thing I most remember about Clipper 5 is that it had CodeBl
by fcoury 4y ago
That is amazing to hear, I would love to get back to those years through some existing software. The thing I most remember about Clipper 5 is that it had CodeBlocks that resemble today’s closures in most languages. Do you remember that? :)
My pathway right after was Delphi as well.
After it “ended” I contributed a tiny bit to the Harbour project but I think it came a little too late.
- jasim 4y agoYes, IIRC, Clipper 5's big marketing point was `aeval`! (short for array eval, array.map in modern langs). Clipper also had a huge array of third party libraries, I fondly remember Nanfor, Grumpfish, and SuperLib. If you want to see some code, here's a repo of one of my Clipper projects: https://github.com/jasim/EasyAccounts https://github.com/jasim/EasyAccounts There is also The Oasis mirrors which have a large cache of Clipper code: https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/docs/ https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/docs/
- fcoury 4y agoWhoa I will definitely check it out tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!
- pjmlp 4y agoClasses and functional programming in MS-DOS. Sometimes I dive into old programming stuff I used to do, mostly forgotten and then get amazed how I was doing OOP, functional programming, memory safe systems programming, some form of automatic memory management, AOT compiled languages (statically linked) and now it seems everyone is kind of rediscovering what we were doing almost 40 years ago.