Good thoughts. Brgds, Viktor
On 2010 Apr 10, at 21:40, Lorenzo Fiorini wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Antonio Maniero <mani...@klip.net> wrote: > >> Some rules I've learned: >> ... >> []'s Maniero > > Excuse my jump in and feel free to ignore everything. > > For me WP should be only a place where to say that Harbour exist and > what it is while the "details and comparisons" should be elsewhere. > > I understand that expression like "fast", "modern" or "unlike Java" > need to be proved and that a sentence like "Most softwares originally > writen to run on Xbase++, Flagship, FoxPro, xHarbour and others > dialects can be compiled with Harbor with some adaptation." can be > "critical". I've used FoxPro in the past and I can say that "some > adaption" is not the term I'd use for a conversion :) > > Instead you could summarize the introduction leaving only the facts like: > ... > Harbour is an open source computer programming language. The compiler, > the runtime and the support libraries are written in Ansi C and > Harbour itself so they can be built on every operating system that has > a compatible C compiler. Harbour is known to work under Microsoft > Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Windows CE, OS/2 Ecomstation, > Haiku/BeOS. > > The open source Harbour license[1] is similar to the GNU General > Public License, with an exception supporting commercial applications, > so commercial applications can be produced with Harbour and > distributed. > ... > > Concepts like "multiple graphic terminals" or "replaceable database > driver" are difficult to explain in few sentences and can be even > misleading so I would remove them. > > In general I think you could present Harbour as a language by itself > instead of a Clipper clone. The vast majority of developers don't know > what Clipper is so references to it are almost useless. > > Then you could add some code examples trying to make the code as clean > as possible starting with: > > function main() > outstd( "Hello World" ) > return > > I would avoid: > > - mention macro > - things like ? or QOut > - terms like procedure or routine > - show both begin sequence and try catch syntax > - using DO <x> > - show DO CASE > > best regards, > Lorenzo > > > > think > _______________________________________________ > 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
