[ajuc]

Such a shame Clipper and Delphi didn't worked out.

In early 90s my uncle (now 60 years old electrical engineer) taught himself clipper from 0 (no programming background whatsoever, and no English language) and wrote a software for capturing and analysing temperature curves of polymer ovens at a factory where he works that is still used to this day. They keep a DOS PC just to run it :)

I don't think it's possible to do this with modern programming technology, there's too many layers of abstraction and unrelated asides blocking people from "just making it work".

[pjmlp]

Delphi is still around, and there is a striving community in Germany, big enough to keep conferences and magazines going.

But yeah, Borland really messed up.

[725686]

My older brother still maintains clipper code that is used in production.