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by neverartful 897 days ago
Regarding compilers, IBM had their C Set/2 compiler and then later the VisualAge C++ one. Borland also produced a C++ compiler and IDE as well.

Funny that you should mention Clipper because I developed Clipper software too that got to be too big (memory requirements) for DOS to handle without doing crazy tricks. At that point, I sucked it up and transitioned it to OS/2 PM. I wrote the GUI front end in Watcom's VX-REXX (an excellent product) and the back-end in C and using DB2/2. Fun times!
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pjmlp 897 days ago
Additionally with Visual Age for Smalltalk and SOM (OS/2 version of COM, which also did metaclasses), there was a .NET like experience with Smalltalk, before Microsoft even though of it.

Visual Age for C++ was also one of the few IDEs that back in the day provided a Smalltalk like experience for C++, especially in version 4.

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HankB99 897 days ago
I used VX-REXX as well for a back end written in C++ (IBM compiler, IIRC.) No DB2 for this one, it was a network relay for some incoming data.
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