Would you expose source codes you wrote to educate others?

[Mr. Man-wai Chang]

I know Clipper/DOS is old-hat ... ;)

[dlzc]

Post by Mr. Man-wai Chang
I know Clipper/DOS is old-hat ... ;)

Sure. It was close enough to generic code, that it could be used for that, prior to the 5.x version, when it was C-ified.

David A. Smith

[Otto Christiaanse]

On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 4:03:17 PM UTC+2, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Would I expose source code I wrote to educate others?

Yes. Possibly just to say "don't do this (anymore)".

Post by Mr. Man-wai Chang
I know Clipper/DOS is old-hat ... ;)

That doesn't matter. In C# or X# it is no problem to write bad code, or to find improvement in new code.

Architectural principles, development techniques, those matter the most.

[Geoff Barnard]

Clipper may be 'old hat'.
DOS may be 'old hat'.
I'm certainly 'old hat' as well.

From time to time, I need to do quick and dirty manipulation of dbase files.
I would still do that with Clipper S.87, at the DOS prompt. On a WinDoze XP
machine. No problem.

Why worry? I don't!!

Geoff

Post by Mr. Man-wai Chang
I know Clipper/DOS is old-hat ... ;)
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[Mr. Man-wai Chang]

Post by Geoff Barnard
Clipper may be 'old hat'.
DOS may be 'old hat'.
I'm certainly 'old hat' as well.
From time to time, I need to do quick and dirty manipulation of dbase files.
I would still do that with Clipper S.87, at the DOS prompt. On a WinDoze XP
machine. No problem.
Why worry? I don't!!

For me, Visual Foxpro. ;)

[Jefren Draehd]

Haven't looked at it in about 15 years. Likely it's awful. I'm not always conventional.
I don't recall doing anything special or fancy though. I do have a bunch of still unfinished projects, and after switching to linux earlier this year, I have decided to explore harbour.
Lots to learn and relearn. Lol
I have no problem sharing.

[Mr. Man-wai Chang]

Post by Jefren Draehd
I do have a bunch of still unfinished projects, and
after switching to linux earlier this year, I have
decided to explore harbour.
Lots to learn and relearn. Lol
I have no problem sharing.

Use Tmux or GNU Screen to run those Harbor projects and you turn your
Clipper single-user programs into internet-based multi-user programs
with session support.