On Wednesday 13 August 2008 10:45:24 am Szakáts Viktor wrote: > - We're done.
Wow! What a project! I'm so happy to see this day come. Over 8 years ago, a group of volunteers from the usenet newsgroup comp.lang.clipper formed a dream and opened this mailing list on September 16, 2000. We had a couple of months on another list, but I don't remember how long and it doesn't really matter. If anyone is interested in a compressed mbox of every message ever posted here, I have it. Email me. 35,992 developer messages! This has been a long difficult project with huge variety of participants. Many amazing contributors. Many people stayed with the project for all 8 years. That takes sincere dedication and as the leader of The Harbour Project I thank you for being here whether you contributed one suggestion or spent thousands of hours over half a decade helping to get it to the finish line. I would like to make special mention of VIktor Skazats and Przemyslaw 'Przemek' Czerpak. I think we can all agree that you have been pulling the moijority of the load for years now. Unselfishly, you have been on a relentless drive to the finish line. You remind me of the Olympians we have been watching on television this week. Thank you Viktor and Przemek! You both deserve a 'Gold Medal in Programming'. And they were most certainly not without great help from dozens of other faithful contributors. I would like to personally extend my thanks to everyone who has been involved with Harbour Project in any way. We could not have done it without you. You helped us make it to this goal! A monumental task for a group of volunteers spread around our planet. We did it to provide a basis for programming freedom in the future. We did it because it was a great challenge. We did it because we saw a language we love being intentionally put to death, possibly costing us our futures. Above all, I believe it has been a labor of love. Nothing else can make this much work come together and get finished against all odds. What we have created is FAR beyond our original dreams. We have not only managed to stay true to our goal of creating a fully compatible Clipper 5.2e compiler, but we have also folded in an amazing array of advancements. You all deserve a great round of applause. Congratulations to everyone, past and present! Clipper is dead. Long live Harbour Project! -- Waiting for sunspots. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
