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first of all - thank you in advance for all answers.
Second - I'm not asking about writing console programs working on modern systems (like Ubuntu 11.10 or Windows 7) nor batch files.
Third - I'm not going to become DOS 6.22 nor Windows 3.1 programs developer. Maybe I will write small program only for educational purpose.
I am wondering how programmers works on early (I refer to 70's, 80's and begining of 90's) days of computer. On wikipedia there's many information about, let's caled it "ancient times", but there's not enough about "middle ages" (I'm referring to 70-90's) in programming definition. Although in DOS times programs higly depends on used machines (because they directly call hardware IRQ), I can't believe that there wasn't something like today Integrated Development Environment and that some of them were written in high level programming language. Is it possible that Prehistoric 2 has been written in Assembly? I don't think so, but I assume that early versions of BASIC can't receive such possibility.
Could you recommend any good article or source of information? I'm interested both MS (DOS, Windows 16-bit) and Unix platforms.
See also Borland Turbo C++ and Borland C++, commonly used in the early 90s.
If memory serves, Commander Keen was built using Borland tools. It's probable that other same-era Apogee/id games (like the original 2D Duke Nukem) were built under Borland as well.
Later on (early-to-mid 90s), id Software started using Watcom and the DOS/4GW DOS extender to build games like the original DOOM.
I was working in that period on Windows 16-bit and DOS (also DEC VAX and Alpha).
Mostly I used Turbo Pascal and Delphi 1 both of which provided IDE's. This was in the early 90's
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What is exactly Smalltalk used for? Creating websites? Trying to understand what can be built using this language.
Also,what are the tools that are used to code in Smalltalk? I google and see Pharo as one such tool.
What is exactly small talk used for ?
Everything.
Creating websites ?
Yes.
Trying to understand what can be built using this language.
Everything. Smalltalk is Turing-complete and "Tetris-complete". It can be used for anything and everything any other language can be used for.
Things that have been built in Smalltalk:
Operating Systems
VMs (including Smalltalk VMs)
Compilers (including Smalltalk compilers)
Smalltalk IDEs (in fact, Smalltalk invented the concept of the IDE)
GUI Frameworks
Desktop systems (in fact, Smalltalk invented the concept of the desktop with overlapping windows as we know it today)
Embedded Systems (for example, the famous Tektronix oscilloscopes)
Office suites
CPU layout tools
Websites
Webservices
Games
Virtual Worlds
Simulations
AI
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Also,what are the tools that are used to code in small talk ?
Smalltalk Systems are typically all-encompassing systems that provide everything, from the VM, compiler, debugger, IDE, version control, GUI, widgets, frameworks, tools, and libraries in one. In other words, you don't use "tools" to code in Smalltalk, you use Smalltalk to code in Smalltalk.
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Whanted to get a openvms dev enviroment, where could use it to learn the basic command's to get feel for it without worrying about breaking anything.
So whanted to know if its possible to install a openvms iso image in Virtual Box
In case its possible where could get a openvms image or needed first to get installation cds and from those generate the iso?
if the cds are needed is there some online store that can be bought or the price is only afordable for companies?
only making inqueries to see if its possible and feasible, other wise gona give up the ideia of having a development enviroment.
Well what do you know so far, and what do you have so far?
Do you know that OpenVMS has a 40+ year history, was originally written for the (32 bit) VAX platform, ported to 64-bit Alpha (30+ years ago), then ported to Itanium and X86 (64 bit).
That X86 port will boot natively and you may want to ue VMware, Virtualbox or similar - within the current constraints and offeringg - visit vmssoftware.com for details.
For initial learning I recommend to just to use an Alpha or VAX emulator.
Those could run on a virtual machine, but there is no good reason.
Just run as process on whatever laptop/server your have running Windows (and some Linux options I think).
There are are several emulators out there, both free and commercial - google is your friend.
I happen to like/use FreeAXP for Alpha running under 64 bit windows - just Google.
There is no Itanium emulator.
Do you have access to the software distribution somehow?
For starters, why even bother trying to get your own system?
Just timeshare to get a feel for it.
For example SSH to decuserve.org [184.168.131.241 - ooops: 104.207.199.162 ] - ask for an account - presto!
Other timeshare options are available - and very valid to learn the basics (file system, editors, compilers,...)
Good luck!
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by cross-platform I mainly intend Windows and Debian, I do not need a GUI. I need to elaborate text, write/edit files. Programs may need to accept command-line arguments and in some cases prompt for user interaction (input) some programs may need to access an internet connection and send/receive data.
It would be a plus if I could make it use web services written in .net Im not worried about the learning curve however the more simple the better.
Another plus would be the ability to create/interact with databases, possibly using common SQL strings, but I'm open minded.
Python/Java/C# Good option for the requirement.
For java
U can use jdbc in ecillipse/netbean for connecting sql and for web base applications
Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.Python is simple to learn and understand
For .net in debian u can follow:
http://www.mono-project.com/WCF_Development
If you need to support web services on both windows and Linux ,then I can recomend an alternative to WCF
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack
Use this to avoid porting effort.
refer this
.Net web services on linux
You are just looking for a portable language that is easy to use for both Windows and Debian both Java and Python are good choices. Python is especially simple and easy to pick up when it comes to scripts about file manipulations and file management. Also there are python libraries that can connect to an SQL database and send queries (How do I connect to a SQL server database with python?)
The portability is really simple as well in python. Most Debian installs have python pre-installed and for windows you just need to install the correct version of python from their website(https://www.python.org/downloads/)
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I have a legacy code base written in CLIPPER. I don't have any idea of CLIPPER programming language.
How do I get started with it and deploy this application? Is it a scripting language OR some sort of OOPS language any study reference will be helpful
Thanks in Advance
Kaushik
Clipper is 16-bit compiler for character-based (not GUI) applications running on MS-DOS platform. There are, however, 3rd-party tools that will allow to produce 16-bit Windows GUI applications.
It's still owned by Computer Associates but all future development and support was delegated to GrafX long time ago.
The last released version was 5.3 but many developers stayed with 5.2e. The last update was around Y2K.
There are Harbour and xHarbour open source projects that developed their own compilers for this language (which in the beginning was similar to dBase III).
You can find information about the language and some 3-rd party libs in a Clipper section of this web-site.
Native Clipper compiles all its code into a single executable that runs on user desktops. Its data and index files are usually placed on a network share. Executable itself can also be placed on a share with user desktops having a short-cut to it.
Native Clipper applications (16-bit) will not run under 64-bit Windows. There are emulators (like DosBox) that allow to overcome such limitation.
Clipper related questions can be asked on comp.lang.clipper newsgroup.
If you have more questions add them as comments here.
Another good resource is Norton Guides for Windows, you can download it from a great site with lot of information about Clipper:
Download NGW from www.the-oasis.net.
I was unable to find the .NG files on that site, but you can see them online here if you want or try to found the files googling them.
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I'm getting really tired of working against click-once and I'm wondering if there's a better alternative. I'm looking for a programming environment that preferably does not depend on the .net framework. I'm not sure how much .net does for me exactly (though I have some idea) but I'd like to make my programs as independent of downloading a microsoft or other framework. I often think of professional programs like itunes, gimp or firefox that don't require someone to have a .net framwork. I'd also like to have these programs work on windows mac and linux. Any suggestions?
You might want to look at Qt and QtCreator. QtCreator supports integration with Visual Studio, so you can continue to use the environment you apparently already like, but still produce portable results.
C or C++.
If you're looking to make a program that is like gimp or Firefox, than you'll have no other good alternative. Java needs its virtual machine and web apps require an Internet connection. Though that's rarely a problem these days, it simply might not be applicable in your case. However, like the others have alluded, true platform-independence is tricky and that is certainly not less trivial in C or C++. That's pretty much why Java and .NET came to be in the first place.
You could always write your applications in Java, using the Eclipse or Netbeans IDE. Java is cross-platform so that takes care of Linux and Mac.
Alternatively, you could write your code in C or C++, and use a separate compiler for each platform. But that is more difficult because it will expose you to more (all?) of the differences in the three platforms.
What about a web app, should work on all devices. Otherwise you can use Java but then people need to have Java on their machine. Native code will be a pain in the neck sicne you then need to compile it for all different OS versions