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From: diamond@hubcap.clemson.edu (The REAL David Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: In defense of Clipper 5.0
Keywords: Clipper
Message-ID: <1991May19.140228.17846@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 19 May 91 14:02:28 GMT
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tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:

>In article <1991May17.170054.18080@dbase.A-T.COM> tomr@dbase.UUCP (Tom Rombouts) writes:

>< a wonderful message which I won't repeat>

>Thanks Tom... I think you've said it as eloquently as it can be said and I
>hope I never hesitate to tell somebody that Clipper 5.0 is not a piece of
>cake.

>Writing business applications is not a casual undertaking and anyone making
>the effort should understand the principals of good software design and
>should obviously choose the appropriate tools.

>Without a doubt the first incantation of Clipper 5.0 was very faulty and
>I have sympathy for those who were frustrated by problems which were not of
>their own devising.  On the other hand, if somebody released an application
>to the public using that version I have to think that their own testing
>phase was severly flawed as the errors were painfully obvious.

>Hopefully your message has put an end to the nonsense and those that like
>Clipper can continue to produce the applications and those that do not can
>call the nearest discount software place and order anything else they wish
>and become productive in that.

I second that emotion. I LIKE 5.01. I think it is an extremely flexible 
tool for database applications. Now if you don't want to work at writing
Clipper code (w/ all the benefits of its flexibility go buy Clarion (sic)
. Clarion will spoon feed you if that is what you want. Of course Clarion is about as flexible as concrete. 

Just an opinion, treat it as such.

-- 
   David C Lee                      
   Clemson University     //       
   Clemson,SC           \X/ Amiga
   diamond@hubcap.clemson.edu