Comment by pasc1878
4 days ago
We wrote and used a lot of dbf files on a server in a major bank and no problems. Albeit using clipper.
But we had no issues as locking did exist.
The clipper management cam over to the UK to see us and other UK customers. They were shocked to find their small project was doing life critical things for medics and putting thousand of millions of pounds of trades through their code.
Three questions:
* How plug-and-play is compiling dBASE code in Clipper? Compiles and runs immediately, needs minor edits, or more work than that?
* How much of a speed improvement does compiling provide?
* How grateful were clients for the speed improvement?
Probably plug and play except the indicies are a different file type.
Speed I can't rememeber (it was 40 years ago) then again the speed of a dbase etc program is limited by disk access
It was an internal system so no real comparison.
I do not think we converted much from dBase to Clipper, I assume the first programs did before I joined but by that time we had in house libraries etc.