I will use Clipper open source alternative called Harbour.
I started using Clipper in 1986 and some of 1986 code still runs today.
Clipper was a compiler for Ashton tate dbase II language.
Harbour now allows to run old code on windows, linux, Mac, Solaris and a bunch of other less common OSes, both in text mode or using some gui lib.
It will also run on android and ios (using Qt).
Wow! I had no idea Clipper was still around. I was using it in 1993 with code blocks (essentially lambdas and first class functions, but not closures).
Holy cow. Used this for a summer job at an agricultural cooperative. Some special linker was a big help, and so were the trade journals (which I would have to track down for this to make sense).
Blast from the past.
Also, the floppies got wiped out on the way to the big demo, 'cause the backpack was up against the car speakers in the back seat on the way there). Maybe '91.
Yes it is still thriving in some countries. Every month someone asks how to run old clipper programs in some more recent os and porting (if you have source code or exes can be decompiled) can be done quite easily.
If you still have clipper code you can give Harbour a try (it is on github).
I started using Clipper in 1986 and some of 1986 code still runs today. Clipper was a compiler for Ashton tate dbase II language.
Harbour now allows to run old code on windows, linux, Mac, Solaris and a bunch of other less common OSes, both in text mode or using some gui lib. It will also run on android and ios (using Qt).