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Wow there is something I haven't heard in a long time. dBase. I remember it and Alpha 4, both just seem so arcane but really served a purpose.
by davismwfl 12y ago
Wow there is something I haven't heard in a long time. dBase. I remember it and Alpha 4, both just seem so arcane but really served a purpose.
- teh_klev 12y agoI still have copies of Clipper code I wrote in the early 90's on one of my archive disks (a "multi-user" help desk system which ran on DOS 6 PC's connected to a Novel 3.12 network). I sometimes go back an look at it just for the nostalgia :) I really loved knocking out Clipper code, you could get a lot done very quickly and Clipper was a solid superset of dBase. Around that time I also wrote most of my code in an editor called Brief [0] which I sometimes pine after. >both just seem so arcane but really served a purpose I guess it depends on your age, but dBase, Clipper, FoxBase etc were hugely popular. FoxBase (or FoxPro as it laterly became know as) was kept alive and kicking by Microsoft and used to ship with Visual Studio (.NET althoug FoxPro was still a COM based language). Rick Strahl (a moderately popular .NET blogger) still maintains a chunk of FoxPro code [2]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro [2]: http://west-wind.com/wsdlgenerator/ http://west-wind.com/wsdlgenerator/