Since the release of Microsoft's C# 1.2 -- in October 2003 -- and the evolution of DOT NET 1.0 through to DOT NET 4.0, a lot of things in the application development world have evolved in ways that have not included Clarion. That is, until recently, given the ever-so-gradual evolvement of Clarion Sharp.
In March of this year, it occurred to me that it was time that Clarion# was taken out for a few hard laps around the track to compare -- or perhaps contrast -- its capabilities feature-for-feature against C#. Since C# is the defacto .NET language, despite the introduction of numerous "Sharp" languages in the last seven or eight years, I wanted to see whether SV's Clarion# language implementation was a worthy member of the .NET language community, which includes, C#, F#, A# GTK#, Qt# and others.
Since having adopted C# as my second-favorite development environment after traditional Clarion, I came to realize that much of what I was doing as a toolmaker for Clarion Win32 involved expansion of the language to fill the ever-widening gap between Clarion and the operating system. Suffice it to say, I found myself in the last couple of years, backfilling missing pieces in Win32 Clarion using C# DLLs hooked into Clarion six and seven using an intermediate technology called COM. Perhaps the time had come to think seriously about making .NET
my default coding environment.
What I found was an eye-opener! The Clarion# language is ready to be used today even before a template generator is added into the Clarion.NET IDE. It implements most coding concepts available to C# - with a few exceptions such as operator overloading - and runs as fast as C# - with a few exceptions such as methods using boxing and unboxing techniques.
The only problem -- getting Clarion 6 and 7 users to believe it! Not that I blame them for having reservations, since I didn't really believe it myself until designing and giving a DOT NET Seminar Series based on a free PDF book by Charles Petzold called .NET Book Zero.
During the months of April and May 2010 these six seminars were given on-line, three times each week using GoToMeeting. We recorded the Friday (3rd presentation) of each of the six seminars and have packaged them - warts and all - for interested developers who couldn't fit the on-line seminars into their busy schedules. Read about how you can take these seminars yourself, what prerequisites are needed to take them, and view a summary of each video's contents. Click here to do that.
Cheers...
Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page
www.cwhandy.com
gcreces@gmail.com
June 1, 2010
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