Steve,

Where did you find harbour?  Did you find a useable .deb file, or did
you install from source.  I used to use Clipper, back in the late 80's
and early 90's.  I still have a copy of "Using Clipper", published in
'88.  It might be fun to play around with it, again.

Marc


On 10/13/23 22:22, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm investigating a language called Harbour, which is a modern, cross
> platform Free Software implementation of the 80's and early 90's
> Clipper 4GL (Fourth Generation Language), in hopes of having a quick
> and easy way to make quick and dirty database applications.
>
> What I'm discovering is that Harbour *might* make a pretty good
> substitute for shellscripts, especially shellscripts that loop a lot,
> because looping in shellscripts is *incredibly* slow. I'll keep you in
> the loop as I discover more about this.
>
> SteveT
>
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