And if what they did to Clipper wasn't bad enough, did anybody ever try to use their Visual Objects? Somehow they managed to detach the DBF from the form - thus destroying one of the most important attributes of xBase programming which had been available since dBaseII.

Barbara

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>Andrew,
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>So right!. CA-Clipper is another spelling of Titanic as far as I'm concerned -- Charlie Wang managed to drive it right into the iceberg.
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>Too bad too, the language had a lot of nice features including actual array mechanics, code blocks, NIL, compilation into machine code -- things that VFP could benefit from and probably will inherit at some point as more and more Clipper programmers migrate.
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>I don't know a single Clipper guy who has stayed with it except for maintaining legacy apps.
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>Not the first time Wang has done us. Remember SuperCalc or SuperWriter -- applications that were 'way ahead of their time, but which just disappeared after being bought by CA.
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>All CA products should by law feature a large skull and crossbones as a warning to the unwary.
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>regards,