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| From | "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! |
| Date | 2011-04-19 23:45 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <917a7dFhe5U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <915on3FrilU1@mid.individual.net> <iolkv4$qqo$1@dont-email.me> |
Mike says:
> OK, I get it: It's belated April Fools' joke. A NEW language, BASED on C!
> Yeah, and I have a bridge to sell you. Nice try, but no cigar: you can
> fool some of the people some of the time, and take advantage of nice
> people often, but karma is a bitch!
>
Mike:
This is no joke !
1. You write your code in xHarbour (using all its features, classes,
functions, librairies).
2. You compile your source program(s) into C-based pcode.
3. You compile this 'C' code into object modules.
4. You link these object modules along with other provided librairies
into a high-speed executable.
xHarbour is relatively new (about ten years old), and has a few
thousand avid programmers making a good living building apps for businesses.
It is 'new' in the sense that the best features of the several xBase
languages (Clipper, dBase, xBase, FoxPro, etc) in existence then were
gathered together, and then those features were implemented into Harbour,
then xHarbour, and expanded over the past ten years. Altho xHarbour in its
bare form is a 'console-based' system, it has several GUI implementations --
some commercial, and a few good ones that are free and are vibrantly active.
I, myself, have built and installed installed several GUI apps and
several console apps at a major structural steel company which controls
their steel beam inventory, does their time-sheet accounting, and provided a
fast, automatic Estimating system for them to quote on major jobs.
These tasks all used xHarbour as the base language.
I am the webmaster of three web sites, and have an Apache Server beside
me in my office. I use an xHarbour app *solely* as the CGI for each of
these sites.
When (if) you visit my www.whosaway.com site, the password you input
(i.e., xhb) is received by my xharbour app (via Apache), databases are
searched, pages are built live and in real-time, and are sent back from
xHarbour to you via my Apache server. Who needs PHP when we have C and
xHarbour !
I'm definitely *not* one of the gurus that populate our ng
(comp.lang.xharbour), but those that visit there daily (including another
Smith -- David -- no relation) can answer any query you might have.
btw, xHarbour is Open Source, and the whole package can be downloaded
to your site via SVN -- or just go to my whosaway site and get the binary
package, and the source code to examine. You'll note that a good portion of
the functions are written in C itself, and the remainder in xHarbour.
You can, of course, build your own functions, and Classes if you wish.
There are a large variety of contributed librairies to handle a wide variety
of tasks: from scientific thru internet accessing code, thru business
processing thru massive database accessing.
-Mel Smith
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C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-19 09:40 -0600
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-04-19 22:46 -0500
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-19 23:45 -0600
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-04-20 00:02 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-04-24 16:08 -0400
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-24 20:26 -0600
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-04-24 22:45 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-25 09:17 -0600
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! David Resnick <lndresnick@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 08:28 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-25 10:31 -0600
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! David Resnick <lndresnick@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 09:37 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-25 10:44 -0600
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! David Resnick <lndresnick@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 12:00 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Joe Wright <joewwright@comcast.net> - 2011-04-25 11:56 -0400
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-04-26 01:21 +0000
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-26 18:02 -0400
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-04-26 16:34 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-04-25 02:08 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-04-25 09:49 -0600
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-04-25 09:43 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-25 14:25 -0400
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-04-26 01:34 +0000
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-04-26 03:09 +0100
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-04-26 03:03 +0000
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-04-25 23:40 -0700
Re: C's Big Brother is Lurking ! Sourav <souravmishra26@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 20:46 -0700
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