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Long live Clipper -- one of my first paid gigs. Amazing platform to write (compiled!) console-based applications with a DB living locally or on a networked driv
by gonzus 2y ago
Long live Clipper -- one of my first paid gigs. Amazing platform to write (compiled!) console-based applications with a DB living locally or on a networked drive. Something which does not exist anymore as a market.
- neverartful 2y agoSame here. I really enjoyed working with Clipper. The fun ran out when my application was bursting through the available memory though. It would be nice to have a 64 bit linux/macos/windows Clipper-like compiler.
- pasc1878 2y agoWell that exists Harbour https://harbour.github.io https://harbour.github.io
- neverartful 2y agoYeah, I know about it. However every time I've tried to use it I ran into all kinds of problems.
- GrumpyNl 2y agoSame here, good memories, compiling took up to 30 minutes, so during compiling we always went for a game of billiards. Coming back you found out that the compilation had crashed after 5 minutes, fix bug and start the same routine.
- vasac 2y agoI don’t recall compilation being slow. The Clipper app for small businesses that my father created used overlays because it couldn’t fit in memory, yet compilation was still fast (all of this was happening on an XT). Linking, on the other hand, was painfully slow, but one could use Turbo Linker if overlays weren’t needed—TL was unbelievably fast. Later, Blinker came along. It was slower than TL but offered excellent support for overlays (and a bunch of other useful features) while still being much faster than MS Linker.
- fuzztester 2y agoOverlays were supported even in Turbo Pascal 3.x, which, IIRC, came out in the same decade as Clipper, maybe before or around the same time.
- pjmlp 2y agoI used Clipper Summer '87, and Clipper 5.x on a 386SX, running at 20MHz, 2 MB, and a 40 MB HDD. What were you doing for 30 minutes?!?
- ido 2y agoYou sure it wasn’t a DX? The SX only came out in ‘88. Either way, that would be a hell of a high end system for that time.
- fuzztester 2y agoXBase / Foxpro / Clipper apps are probably still used in India, widely, in small department stores, grocery stores, factories, medical stores, etc. They are much faster to operate and more efficient for CRUD type apps then GUI based ones.
- myth2018 2y agoSame in Brazil. And users love them.
- Zardoz84 2y agoTake a look to what are using on Leroy & Merlin stores
- fuzztester 2y agoHad not heard of them, had to google it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Merlin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Merlin
- achairapart 2y agoAlso, there were a ton of very powerful third-party libraries too!