I remember starting a new job in 1989 and seeing a copy of a dBase III+ book on my boss's secretary's desk. Blew through it in two weeks and was referred to Cli

I remember starting a new job in 1989 and seeing a copy of a dBase III+ book on my boss's secretary's desk. Blew through it in two weeks and was referred to Clipper by a co-worker, still a developer 24 years later (SMF!). Clipper's constrained class system (de-constrained by a third party library) is still one of my favorite dev environments. Brian Marasca's ObjectDb library was an eye-opener and a great tool--thanks mate! CA-Visual Objects, wow, talk about a missed opportunity. I co-wrote one of the first (and few, in the end) books about it during the beta phase. As the years went on I came to understand that with Clipper in the CA stable there was little chance of any different outcome but still a huge disappointment.