Hi Antonio, Thank you very much for your kind introduction e-mail, and very much so for the update work you've done on Harbour's wikipedia entry, I've just checked it, it's very good job. It finally looks professional.
You're welcome in the team. Brgds, Viktor On 2010 Apr 6, at 17:08, Antonio Maniero wrote: > Hello everybody > > First of all I really sorry by my bad and poor English. I made my best. > > I am a software developer for 26 years working with several programming > languages mostly building Line Of Business applications in Brazil. > > I worked with Clipper since Clipper exists. I used the first copy sold in > Brazil by Softcorp (succeeded by Officer and after Nantucket Brasil and CA > Brasil). I worked on a company (one of the major business software companies > in the world) that was practically the only VO beta tester in Brazil. It's a > shame a good idea turns trash :-) As 1996 on internet era I change my career > and dropped Clipper in favor of other solutions. Now I am back to LOB > applications with total freedom to choose my way. I decided modernize my old > Clipper applications "porting" to Harbour. I was a big lover of Clipper, > specially 5.2 and I had supported the way Nantucket did think Clipper > evolution and some aspects of Visual Objects developed by CA. I liked to see > Clipper near to syntax and some semantics of C. Yes, I am not a typical > Clipper developer. I think dBase style is a bad thing although is a necessary > evil to carry. > > I want fix some errors and bad style which I made on 80's and use improved > features available on Harbour. I need rewrite my C functions, throw away > some, rethink about UI (console to GUI) and databases (transition from DBF to > MySQL and others RDBMS). > > I think harbor 2.0 is a wonderful piece of software. It's not perfect because > the heavy legacy to honor. I like the design of a clean core with extensions. > I want publicly prize Viktor and PC (I can´t write his name :-) ). I agree > with most of their decisions and I strongly appreciate their work. Ok, now I > can criticize some points without fear :-) I want to see Harbour moving > forward, not in xHarbour style, but in smart Harbour style. In Brazil we have > a popular expression: The hasty eating raw :-) > > I want to make it clear: I want help Harbour development. Now I can mainly > give my opinions, try to influence some decisions, suggest enhancements, > report bugs. I need to get experience with C99 and GCC. My C experience is > about MS-C 5.0 (I give you a candy if you know why :-) ). I need to get time > to help with code. I will try to contribute with some thing later. > > I can't help too much with documentation, IMHO the biggest Harbour need, > because my bad English. I am improving Wikipedia's article now. I invite you > to contribute too. It's an initial work. I will contribute more on Portuguese > article. I am writing about Harbour on a variety of articles (xBase, > programming languages comparison, etc). See my contribs logged as bigown. > Please, feel free to add new information or edit and delete wrong or bad > text. I am reviewing text bring from xHarbour. It's a good way to learn more > about Harbour. Viktor, I think now the article is very bad, but not a shame > anymore ;-) > > In the next days I will try reply some old messages with my opinions. > > I would like help with HBIDE but I have a very different programming style > and my major problem as developer is difficulty of adaptation on other style. > Totally my fault. Anyway I would like to see HBIDE evolution mainly in code > editor and debugger. In fact I hope to get HBIDE compiled. Four days trying > and nothing :-) But I can't get any application using Qt or MySQL compiled. > Maybe my Harbour build is wrong. I still trying. > > Well, I have to learn a lot about Harbour, try it on Linux and I hope PC > (druzus) can get some time to answer some doubts about PP. I have special > interest about it because I am thinking to write a transformation software to > change my legacy code. I love Clipper/Harbour PP and I abuse it, but I know > what I am doing. > > Now I have a lot of work to do. > > Thanks to everyone efforts. Harbour community need to be more active to > "sell" Harbour on the web. IMHO most xBase programmer is individualist too > much, including. I hope change this. > > Feel free to write me in private when the list is not adequate place. > > []'s > Antonio Maniero > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
