Re: Still searching for a new Clipper

hfufna@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> While wandering around a bumped into this site, that refers to "CULE
> Language, 95% compatible with Clipper" , and producing .NET
> executables:
> 
> http://www.softwareperspectives.com/CulePlace/Default.aspx?tabid=43
> 
> They even offers "the Clipper Migration ToolKit (CMTK) – a software/
> services offering that migrates all Clipper legacy code to the .Net
> platform automatically!"
> 
> Anyone has informations about it?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Hfufna
> (Hannes "Fuffy" Nalgreen)
> 
>  and 
> 
I read about it on the web site you referenced and would like to offer 
my opinion. They are obviously using 'hard sell' tactics to promote 
there product. The reasons that they give for developers to buy their 
product are mostly half-truths or exaggerations. They even go so far as 
to say that DOS-16 bit emulation "doesn’t even exist in Windows Vista". 
And they (apparently) have never heard of (x)Harbour or any of the other 
Clipper language developments because their migration path is the only 
choice offered.

They want everyone to convert all 'legacy' Clipper apps to the .NET 
platform - as if everything about .NET is good and terminal-interfaced 
apps are not going to be around for much longer.  They also say (in 
different words) that you can make lots of money by converting Clipper 
apps to .NET.

CULE's scaremongering reminds me of other pseudo-scams - such as the Y2k 
brouhaha and the currently evolving data encryption and anti-virus 
paranoia.  Sure, operating systems die, DOS was not the first to be 
abandoned and it certainly won't be the last. But computer languages are 
not at all dependent on a specific OS.

I say; look at the CMTK from CulePlace if you want to tame (meaning make 
it slower and less powerful) and limit your application to the Microsoft 
'lego sandpit', and possibly to make easy money without scruples - but 
not for any other reason.

Norman