It was faster running code than dB3+, where you had to buy a runtime as well. Dropping all obj plus exe for clipper in a directory was easy. FPD was more "complicated" because it offered development and runtime ;-)
Had to look it up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_%28programming_language%29remembers it similar...
>That could be. Summer 87 was a LONG time ago. But I seem to remember that distribution was considerably easier than other options.
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>>how do you define "real exe" ? Clipper 87 still used a p-code VM IIRC ?
