Hi Hfufna,
Nice to hear from you again.... Alaska started out well but they could
never keep up with their promises and time schedules.... I started
pointing
that out and they didn't like that too much. <g>
dBASE at that time was well ahead of Alaska esp in the area of an IDE /
form
designer etc etc since they used the Borland IDE. I used dBASE for
awhile
but could see after awhile, they were pretty much dead ( development wise
)
and then out of frustration, I moved to C++. C++ was great, did
everything
I needed to do and was super quick. Until recently when I found out
about
Vulcan, I'd been doing C++ work just about exclusively. But I missed
coding
in an xbase language.
I happened to catch the press release about Vulcan and noticed they had a
free trial ( http://goVulcan.net
) and played with it some... I actually
managed to get a small app together without reading the getting started
guide <g>. But then after reading the getting started guide I was hooked.
They have just about the best getting started guide I've ever seen....
It's
a must read for anyone wanting to get into NET ( no matter what language
you
use ).
The Vulcan language is kind of part C# and part xbase... it's amassing how
well plain Jane xbase code runs with it. And since it's 100 percent NET
CLR, it produces the exact same NET exe my C++ code would produce. The
EXEs are nice and small ( you can email them <g> ), since it uses the NET
Framework which is already on most people's computers.
So so far so good, I found another product I like, it works, and it's 100
percent Microsoft compatible and I can use the Visual Studio IDE. I
haven't personally seen it but I hear the Vulcan exes also run on Linux
and
Mac ( with the right emulation software I guess ).
Stay in touch, ( live long and prosper <g> )
Al
--
Al Acker, President
Acker Consulting, Inc.
mailto:al@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On 2 Mag, 02:51, "Al Acker" <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Still have one large Clipper app we work on for a F100 company... other
>> than
>> that we've been doing C++ and recently Vulcan ( an xbase surface for
>> Visual
>> Studio ) which has been a ton of fun.
>>
>> Al
>>
>> <hfu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>>
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>> On 8 Apr, 17:02, "Peter B. Steiger" <see....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:48:51 +0200, FatControllerUK sez:
>>
>> > > Is Clipper still active? I've never really fully adjusted moving
from
>> > > Clipper to an OOP environment, although I found ASP had
similarities.
>>
>> > Heck yeah, it's still active! Our flagship application, now over 16
>> > years old, still has hundreds of customers who can't quit bring
>> > themselves to move to our web-based product. I'm so busy
>> > supporting the legacy code and writing little Clipper apps to
>> > analyze and repair data errors, I still haven't had time to learn
>> > the new stuff.
>>
>> > --
>> > Peter B. Steiger
>> > Cheyenne, WY
>> > If you must reply by email, you can reach me by placing zeroes where
>> > you see stars: wypbs.**1 at gmail.com (yes, that's a new address)
>> > ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**
>>
>> Well, maybe you can find the time to check DBFREE then.
>> It's a Clipper interpreter for web servers: you can build ASP pages
>> using Clipper commands and functions (even UDFs).- Nascondi testo tra
>> virgolette -
>>
>> - Mostra testo tra virgolette -
>
> Glad to hear you again, Al.
> It's a long time!
>
> I remember when we were discussing xBase topics on Alaska Software
> newsgroup: it was, what, five-four years ago?
> What happened to Alaska guys then?
>
> I just had a letter from them some time ago, and I think they sent
> even a CD to me, maybe at the end of the last year. I didn't even
> unwrap the envelope, but I suppose is the 4th release of xBase
> 1.9.something...
> Not bad, uh?
>
> Was year 2000 or so when I paid for that subscription, if I remember
> well.
>
> In the mean time I switched to dBase Inc (now DBI Inc) wich I'm still
> using today.
> I found dBase Plus (2.21 and 2.25) very useful to interface with
> DBMax, a Clipper-like web interpreter that is powering a large project
> of Traffic Authority of my town (Florence, Italy) and other large
> projects of City Council, where I work as consultant.
>
> I'm not using Clipper anymore, at least not the compiler, but I do use
> Clipper language almost everyday.
> In facts I still earn my living with it! And I have very few
> competitor on place, I must say.
> Ah, good old clipper! I started 1987 and I'm still going.
> Cheers
>
> Hfufna
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