>Many years ago thee was an xBase product named Clipper than compiled the code to a real .exe. They're naming convention was bad, using the season and year. Summer '87 was the one to use, but it got worse. As they released updates, you had to keep track of the time stamp on the compiler .exe file. The version you ultimately wanted was Summer '87, 2:00 AM.

Well, they changed that in 1990 when the version became 5.0. I bought and worked with Clipper since Summer 87 to 5.2, and I liked it, in particular the pre-processor directives were so powerful that you could change the language itself, in fact since version 5.0 I worked with "object oriented" Clipper, which was nothing but a bunch of pre-processor directives.