>Looks like I'm just older ;). And I somehow had a Freudian slip here - I did an app in Clipper once, but don't like to remind myself of it.
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>I'll be 42 in February, baby fat and all, so I'm not as young as I look.

I just turned 51 few weeks ago. Feels like, well, 51 :).

>Clipper *was* a great tool, if you forget about that entire 5.0 debacle from the fall of 1990 until March of 1991 when they finally patched it. That initial version may go down in history as the worst version of any database development tool, ever. (and it certainly helped Fox' cause...I was living in Atlanta when it happened, and I know many people who switched from Clipper to Fox during that period).

My stint was in 1988, and while it (Clipper 87) was a nice tool for the times, it still left a lot to be desired. Next year I was sold to Fox and never looked back. I even redid the same app from scratch, and it looked much better.

I remember the 90-91 with all the Clipper guys sweating over in the online space of the time. It was neat in some places - codeblocks and cdx drivers and the way you could actually see how it all translates into C calls, and how you could insert your own C (and maybe assembler - dunno).

I had my moment of Saturn via Kia then - I asked a fellow Clipper guy (online) how would he do name expressions and macro substitution in Clipper, a few things I regularly did back then (had data driven menus from day one, actually)... and after a few shots back and forth he replied with a classic "why would you want to do that anyway? You do not need such things at all".