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SKA:
Dear IanB

I have clients who use Clarion for Windows, recently they told me about Clarion.NET IDE which is why I posted about it in this thread. My first post on DC about Clarion was in 2006 , this is my second post
on Clarion.Net. 
  
You are right - there is less info about Softvelocity the company behind Clarion - its mostly a product website.

On this newsgroup comp.lang.clarion I found this old post (in 2000) which seems to explain more about Clarion.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.clarion/browse_thread/thread/48fd6184ff0a44af/f1f29b8064e6a848?lnk=gst&q=history+of+clarion#f1f29b8064e6a848

Brief profile of Softvelocity is here : http://www.itconsulting.com/vendors/softvelocity-122706/

quote:
SoftVelocity produces the Clarion development environment -- Clarion is a data-centric Advanced Rapid Application Development (ARAD) tool featuring roundtrip code generation that preserves your hand written code and allows reiterative code generation. Clarion is used in corporate, government and military installations worldwide.

SoftVelocity, Inc. was founded in May of 2000 when it acquired the Clarion line application development tools from TopSpeed Corporation. The acquisition made SoftVelocity the owner of the Clarion technology that has been developed since 1989 and all products based on it, including the Clarion for Windows product line and a number of accessory development tools.
unquote

It does not look like as disreputable as you infer , but ofcourse you may know more than me.

Apart from Clarion.NET there is also Eiffel (www.eiffel.com) & Omnis Studio
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnis_Studio ) , also http://www.tigerlogic.com/omnis/
but I guess these are more expensive than Clarion.

SKA

IainB:
Edit: 2011-01-06 0031hrs
I have removed my posted comment as it broke at least 3 of my own established rules for posting:
Rule 1: that there is no limit to our ignorance (including mine), and I should accept that;
Rule 2: to limit the contribution of my cognitive surplus to such people and their infinite ignorance/questions, by encouraging them to take more responsibility for seeking out/discovering their own answers.
Rule 3: that people generally seem to have little respect for and to have a limited capacity to internalise answers/knowledge which have come too easily to them, so generally avoid giving them any answers.
Rule 4: in any event, avoid "telling them the answer" or pushing my opinion forwards without substantiation in theory, experience and good practice (this takes work to communicate).

I am already regretting making the post.

SKA:
Some links For CodeTrucker :

article by ClarionMag's publisher Dave Harms:
http://www.clarionmag.com/cmag/v12/v12n10ireland.html

other links:
http://www.clarionmag.com/cmag/v12/v12n09devroadmaps.html
http://www.devroadmaps.com/drm/cm.html

Devroadmaps.com- online magazine on Dot Net :
http://www.devroadmaps.com/
http://www.devroadmaps.com/drm/about.html

"DevRoadmaps is about .NET development in general, not Clarion.NET development in particular. Clarion Magazine is still the place to find Clarion.NET information (at such time as the .NET AppGen is available and usable).  Whether you're using Clarion.NET or non-Clarion tools, I believe you'll find DevRoadmaps.com to be a vital source of information for your .NET business software development."

Promo pricing for devroadmaps.com subscription:
http://www.devroadmaps.com/drm/y10/y10m09betaspecial.html

SKA

CodeTRUCKER:

Thank you to you folks for your comments.  I appreciate your contributions to my research! :up:

Calvin

kyrathaba:
CodeTRUCKER, one of the concerns you've mentioned is cross-platform portability.  Well, .NET continues to be ported via the Mono project, which is quite advanced.  Though not perfect (neither is .NET Framework itself), it's quite impressive.  We're talking the ability to leverage massive amounts of pre-written, well-tested namespaces, and produce modern apps for either Windows or *nix.  CLI really is the wave of the future.  Now, there's no way to guard against future paradigm shifts, which will inevitably come around when their time has come.  The important thing to realize is that the CLI is a very modern, forward-thinking paradigm that can be built upon for many years yet to come.  And let me emphasize the relative ease of programming in a .NET language.  They truly are Rapid Application Development languages.

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