Harbour is a powerful languages compatible with clipper (dbase compiler) born in 1999 xHarbour is a fork of the earlier Harbour project. xHarbour takes a more aggressive approach to implementing new features in the language, while Harbour is more conservative in its approach, aiming first of all for an exact replication of Clipper behaviours and then implementing new features and extensions as a secondary consideration. The Harbour developers have attempted to document all hidden behaviours in the Clipper language and test Harbour-compiled code alongside the same code compiled with Clipper to maintain compatibility. The Harbour developers explicitly reject extensions to the language where those extensions would break Clipper compatibility. Now harbour 1.1 (not ready but working) have strong capability like a Multi Thread, Multi windows, and is under development an incoming GUI class compatible with Xbase Parts Imo you can easy making the switch from clip to harbour Today harbour seem more active that xharbour as you seen in developer mailing http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.xharbour.devel http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.harbour.devel
For compile your sample you can simply use hbmk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:40 AM To: Harbour users Mailing List Subject: [Harbour-users] "New" User - Intro Clipper Fans, I just wanted to post an intro from a "new" user. I was bitten by the dBase bug during my all too brief stint in college. I think it was dBase III+ that I started with. I used dBase at home for a bit until I switched to Linux. That was back in the 1.xx Linux kernel days. Back then I hadn't heard of Clipper. I kept searching for dBase like programs for Linux and eventually came across FlagShip. I used the personal version of FlagShip for a while until they started adding "nagware" dialog boxes that popped up every time one started a program compiled with the personal edition. I then started searching again for other options. I think at that the time I came across the harbour and xHarbour projects. For some reason harbour wouldn't work for me back then. It wouldn't display anything on the screen. A simple program like: Function Main() ? "Hello World!!" Return would just display a blank line. At the time I didn't even try xHarbour. I was under the mistaken impression that xHarbour was an X windows GUI version of harbour. I prefer TUI interfaces. Anyway, I found clip from http://www.itk.ru and have been using it for several years. I just gave harbour another try and the problem I encountered the first time around appears to be gone. And, my programs run faster with harbour than with itk.ru's clip. I also tried xHarbour, but I encountered the blank display problem I mentioned above with the current version of xHarbour. I think I might be making the switch from clip to harbour. P.S. If anyone here is the FreeBSD harbour port maintainer or has contact with him/her, the version of Harbour in the FreeBSD ports tree is 0.44.0. It looks like it might be time for an update. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! _______________________________________________ Harbour-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour-users _______________________________________________ Harbour-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour-users
