Ken Roberts wrote:
ads <ad*@chead.org> wrote in message news:<ma*********************************@python.o rg>...
Hi Everyone,
I'm starting learning python about 2 weeks, and still have
difficulties to create GUI based application because I never learn
about classes and other OOP things. Does anyone knows how to
create text console application like clipper using python.
Thanks,
For those who ask - clipper is a programming language that is a
compiled version of dBase relational database scripting language.
I'm not old enough to have stories about how I hacked on a shiny new
PDP-10 or any such thing. But seeing Clipper on c.l.py brings back
memories; my first real programming job was writing a database app in
Clipper. How blazingly fast it was, compared with the earlier dBase III
version of the app! Clipper was the One True Way to write data-driven
apps. Or so I thought: I was a green kid back then, and hadn't even
heard of SQL...
Those console-based data-entry applications were infinitely more
efficient for a good typist than anything that involves (or even allows)
a mouse.
rhapsodically yours,
-- Graham