dear list, i am an old clipper summer 87 hacker and still actively maintain one application in it (some 30k lines of code, for 13 years now...). in the past i had to find solutions for different of its limitations and so i looked into some alternatives just for fun this monday.
i found harbour and i'm simply BLOWN AWAY! this is so much better than i had imagined! it took me only some hours to fix the missing externals in my existing source code. we had written some stuff ourselves, some of it in assembler, most of it in clipper, some in C. after it linked and i did some tests, i was amazed that almost everything worked just like that. harbour is incredibly compatible, i only had to change the "set filter to" and "set relation to" commands (missing "database->"). of course, there were other little things to do, but i think that after maybe 20 hours of work, the application could be considered working again. i'm still very impressed with your work, both compiler and libs. so, thank you again for your terrific work! this mail is only for praise. though i have some tech questions, i will post them independently, to ease discussion. i would like to know: where can i send some money to support harbour development? it will save me a lot of time in the future and that's worth some euros! is there some coordinated fund? thanks, -- /chris/ _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
