19 Sep
2010
19 Sep
'10
3:35 p.m.
On 19/09/10 19:17, Mark Davidson wrote:
Clarion was originally the
purveyors of the Clarion Development System, a 4GL-like system for DOS
and (eventually) Windows.
Apparently good for databases and business apps. The British magazine
"PC Plus" put a demo version of Clarion on a CD a while ago (1996/1997
timeframe), and did a whole series of articles on how to use it.
Didn't seem to make it any more popular though. I always used Delphi and
the BDE for quick database apps, and C, newt (Erik Troan's windowing
toolkit) and one of the SQL engines (sqlite, mysql or postgres) for the
more advanced stuff.
They merged with JPI to gain the compiler
technology of TopSpeed. I don't know if you can still get the
original compiler system from Clarion.
It looks like you can still get Clarion, but TopSpeed C seems to be long
gone. Clarion now seems to be owned by SoftVelocity, who are advertising
the fact that it has a Modula-2 and C++ compiler in addition to Clarion
4GL, but there's no sign of a separate compiler option.
Website is http://www.softvelocity.com/Clarion/Clarion.htm for anyone
who cares...
Disclaimer: I worked for Clarion back in 1987 or so,
back before
TopSpeed and before they went into the world of Windows. I definitely
have a bias. :) They're idiots.
I could name a lot of software companies who could be described as
"idiots"....
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/