Politics in the Zeros

One of my specialties is taking ancient Clipper DOS-based database programs and drag them kicking and screaming into Windows. One way of doing this is by using open source xHarbour, which converts Clipper into a console app. It looks like the DOS app but is Windows. This is all that some clients want or need. [...]

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I convert dinosaur DOS database applications to Windows and thus get to look at far too much bad code. Here are examples from ancient Clipper and FoxDOS but they apply to other languages too. Too clever by far. Hey, lets grab data from multiple tables and stuff it into 3-D arrays. I mean, aCustomer[12,3,4] = [...]

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