Programming language suggestions

I've gotten away from programming for some time but I am being drawn back by necessity. I have only Clipper 5.3 as a development language.  Pbsd has suggested that clipper 5.3 is likely the last Clipper ever.

I would appreciate hearing suggestions on what languages I should look at to replace Clipper 5.3 for future use.  There doesn't seem to be much use in bumbling through learning more about Clipper 5.3.  My time would be better spent getting to know another package.  Thanks in advance for your responses.

Anything that has a graphical and RAD base, I'd suggest. Most likely Windows based
I'm using Delphi amongst others, and it has become my replacement for Clipper in Q&D (Quick&Dirty) apps. For bigger projects you could consider others, depending on personal taste, like Delphi, C++, C#, VB, or Kylix or C++ on Linux.

Search this forum for 'alternative' or 'language' and you'd be able to find other discussions like this

HTH
TonHu

Be sure and throw Visual FoxPro into the mix.  I have worked with xBase languages since oh, about 1984, dBaseIII/III+, Clipper, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro....
I am still developing apps in FoxPro 2.5 even, although we are migrating all the apps we can to VFP.  And even though the naysayers think MicroSoft is getting rid of Fox, it isn't going to happen.  There is still a massive user base out there.  I think you'll find a lot of similarities between Clipper and Fox code too.

   Dave S.  

Thanks dsummzzz.  I came close to working in FOXPRO but my brother introduced me to Clipper back in 1989.  Quite frankly I was a little dazzled by the file handling of databases.  When I was at Social Security as a systems analyst they were just getting into databases and you had to manipulate the data yourself with data manipulation language.  You had to figure your own addressing scheme and storage algorithms.

It has been kind of weird seeing the PC outpace the main frame IBM systems.  Can you believe that the IBM 370 in 1984 had only 2 million bytes of memory.  I don't remember what the capacity of the pizza oven disk drives was but they had a gigantic room filled with them just to hold the Master Beneficiary Records. Just a trip down memory lane.  Thanks to all who have and will give language info.

Hi Leeneat,

You should also try Alaska Xbase++ http://www.alaska-software.com and at the same time make a turn at Express++. http://www.donnay-software.com. I am sure you will find what you are looking for. If your'e a Clip head like me Xbase and Express is the way to go.

Cheers!
F.J.C Moolman