C/C++ tech list

[Keith Smith]

On 2016-10-24 16:25, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> C/C++ language-specific groups seem to have mostly evaporated in the
> past decade or so as other languages have become more popular in
> general.
> Most of the sites I used to hang out on are no longer functioning.
> http://www.cprogramming.com/ is still running, and is a good starting 
> point.

Nice site!

> Last I heard the #C channel on freenode IRC was still useable, but I
> can't check that directly at the moment.
> StackOverflow is decent when you have reasonably specific questions,
> but it can be a bit of effort to wade through the voluminous content
> to find what you want.
> 
> For your specific project, there are some domain-specific communities
> that might offer pointers, suggestions, and code examples:
> https://harbour.github.io/  An implementation of the Clipper system
> which compiles xBase code and supports multiple backends including
> dbf.
> http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/index.html  The dbf
> file format documentation.
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbase/  An existing (very small,
> possibly abandoned) dbf file library written in C with some C++
> wrappers.
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdb/  Another (definitely abandoned)
> xBase library in C++
> 
> Hopefully those help.

Joseph,

You appear to be someone who was an xBase developer in another lifetime. 
  I started programming using dBase II in the mid 80's. I ended my xBase 
time in 2000 and was using VFP 6 at the time.  I think VFP was the best 
file server database engine and dev tool and probably still is.  I 
recall FoxBase+ being rated as having the best data engine in the late 
80's.

VFP's data engine would allow it to scale to, I would guess, 1000's of 
users.  It was file server and was in a great niche - RAD tool for small 
business.

I worked for a manufacturing company in the mid 90's that was using 
FoxPro Dos to run their business.  I think we had just shy of 200 users. 
  This was a manufacturing company so their needs were very complex.

I think there is a niche that is going under served by the death of VFP. 
  I believe the death of VFP was due to it being purchased by Microsoft.  
At the time I believed M$ bought VFP to acquire the data engine for 
MS-Access.  It appears that was not the case.  It is unclear to me why 
M$ bought Fox.

It would be nice if there was an open source project to build a VFP that 
could run on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Not a VFP that does all things for 
all people.  No web building tools just a simple RAD file server DB tool 
that developers could use to create small business applications.

Thank you for the references and the walk down memory lane!!

Keith

> 
> On 10/23/2016 08:20 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Looking for suggestions C/C++ user group / mailing list.
>> 
>> I have very little experience with C and would like to create some 
>> libraries for managing dBase files (.dbf).
>> 
>> Thank you in advance!!
>> 
>> Keith
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