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Isn Clipper obsolete?

April 26, 2017CLIPPER Obsolete

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Isn Clipper obsolete?

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Clipper, the compiler from Computer Associates? Well, it’s definitely stopped evolving; CA has announced that 5.3 will be the last significant release and only maintenance patches will be forthcoming. There is still (as of March 1998) a lot of maintenance work for good Clipper programmers. And when you do write that occasional new DOS program (some of us still do!), Clipper is an outstanding choice. But for most programmers in business today, yeah, there are really not too many applications that you would write from scratch with Clipper. Clipper, the language? Definitely not obsolete. Clipper clones, improvements, and adaptations are everywhere. I count FlagShip, xBase++, x2c, FORCE, and Visual Objects (sorta) at least. Almost all desktop operating systems in common use have a “Clipper” of some kind. As long as people are using Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, or Unix, there will be a Clipper.