Robert L. Stewart
rl_stewart at highstream.net
Wed Feb 11 12:37:21 CST 2004
Personally, I was a "Clipper Head." I had an extensive library of code and I also used a design tool called Zachary (I was also a beta tester of Zachary). Zachary was also written in Clipper using Zachary. I had events like After Update 3 years before Access. I also had a mouse aware GUI that ran in DOS under Windows 3.1/3.11. I had a GUI type form design tool in Zachary. Clipper was bought by Computer Associates and killed because of a lack of commitment to go forward with the development in a true Windows environment. Zachary died with Clipper. Am I sorry? Well, a little. But, I cannot remember now how to open a table in Clipper, so I will stick with the GUI environment and not bang my head against the "I hate Microsoft" wall and just walk around it to the bank. ;-) Robert At 12:00 PM 2/11/2004 -0600, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:38:39 -0800 >From: "Charlotte Foust" <cfoust at infostatsystems.com> >Subject: RE: [AccessD] Next Version of Access 12 Musings on what > mighthappen(RANT) >To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >Message-ID: > <E61FC1D4B1918244905B113C680BEA8631260D at infoserver01.infostat.local> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Maybe they were stable after being built (which depended entirely on the >skills of the developer, BTW), but I can remember the nightmare of >designing effective entry screens in dBase III and the limits I was >*always* pushing. Give me graphical any day, thanks! > >Charlotte Foust > >-----Original Message----- >From: MastercafeCTV [mailto:mastercafe at ctv.es] >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:21 AM >To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' >Subject: RE: [AccessD] Next Version of Access 12 Musings on what >mighthappen(RANT) > > >Many people like us initiate his projects with Basic, Pascal or similar >languajes. I remmeber with a smile Dbase III and Clipper for develope >incredible database on networks.