Thanks Ismael,

I've used Lazarus. I wrote my own alarm clock application in Lazarus as
well as a video adaptation of that game with 15 squares in a 4x4 board,
moving squares into blanks until the squares are in numerical order.
I've had problems with the complication of my control over the location
of unit files I create. I've had problems with mysterious inability to
change a font. I've had trouble implementing database operations in
Lazarus.

And I think that Harbour is a much better shellscript substitute than
Pascal. MUCH better.

But yes, Lazarus has a lot of potential for Rapid Application
Development (RAD), so thanks for reminding me of it.

SteveT


Ismael L. Donis Garcia said on Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:21:28 -0400

>Steve
>
>you haven't watched Lazarus.
>
>https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
>
>Personally, I have been fascinated by it and I find it very good for
>desktop applications
>
>Best Regards
>--
>Ismael
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Litt" <slitt@???>
>To: <dng@???>
>Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2023 1:22 AM
>Subject: [DNG] Harbour programming language
>
>
>> 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
>>
>> Steve Litt
>>
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>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
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