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Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by pjmlp on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:54AM (#25312722)
As someone that wrote Clipper applications during the early 90's, there are few systems that can match its elegance for CRUD driven applications.

Doing DB operations is relatively simple, formdata entry and validation is super easy, supports modules, OOP and even compiles to native code.

Yeah not good for networked operations, but in many mom and pop shops it isn't needed anyway.

Even VB/Delphi for all their RAD capabilities were already much more complex than Clipper, but they messed up their migration into the GUI world and CA Visual Objects was too complex for the Clipper crowd.

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Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by neverartful on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:41AM (#25314485)
Spot on with Clipper. I used it to write software for a mom and pop shop and it worked fantastic until I started running out of memory. We transitioned from DOS/Clipper to OS/2 with VX-REXX at that point. VX-REXX was also equally impressive.
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