Is correct this page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_%28software%29#History
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antonio Linares Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:24 AM To: Harbour Project Main Developer List. Subject: Re: [Harbour] Why harbour is name of this project? My wife Sylvia proposed it to me. We were driving in the car with the kids and we were talking about a name for the project. Curiously enough the road was beside the sea, and I told them "ocean" as a possible name. Then she answered: "harbour" :-) Two years before that time, I was highly interested in learning how to build a compiler. A friend of mine introduced me to Lex and Yacc and I built an early prototype that I named "Five". I tried to follow the "Force" compiler (by Sophco) architecture (native xbase. No virtual machine used) and though I did a nice progress, I realized there were a lot of troubles going the "Force" way. By that time Linux was already a huge success and I was reading many articles about cooperative development in Internet. It look quite incredible but I thought that if it worked for Linux, then it could also work for a Clipper compatible compiler. Then I started a new Clipper compatible compiler, using this time a virtual machine, and then I went to comp.lang.clipper to propose to build it in an open source way, cooperative development, like Linux. It was a huge success :-) Lots of developers shown a big interest in the project like Ryszard, Dave Pearson, etc. and started helping to organize the open source project. Then I proposed "Harbour" (Sylvia's proposal) and it was widely accepted :-) Unfortunately, later on, some people missunderstood the concept of cooperative development and started acting like "owners" of the project. Some of those guys are still around but I keep the hope that they go away sooner or later, and Harbour recover its freedom feeling: An open Harbour for ClipperHearts :-) _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
