Re: Clipper?
That was a Nantucket product, was taken over by Computer Associates..
You might be thinking of that abomination known as Dbase4 which was written by Ashton Tate. We had the 5.25" floppy media. Forget how many disks it was, enough to give you RSI loading them. The thing that made me laugh (through gritted teeth at the time) was that the first disk appeared to do nothing more than load an animated DBase4 logo onto the screen with a request to feed it disk number two. I seem to remember we didn't have enough memory to load that first disk first time we tried...
Clipper was good at what it did: compiling dbase code into an exe, but I hated the seemingly inconsistent variable scoping that the authors seemed to think was good for flexibility. Then there was macro expansion...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
