Wow, Clipper brings me some memories... I remember APPEND BLANK and REPLACEs, and also having to tell customers to reindex (and regenerate the dreaded .NTX inde

Wow, Clipper brings me some memories... I remember APPEND BLANK and REPLACEs, and also having to tell customers to reindex (and regenerate the dreaded .NTX index files) every day before starting operations. Good times! One nice thing about Clipper is that it had "code blocks" that was the first time I had contact with what we today call Closures. It had a syntax close to Ruby blocks: { |X| ... }