Stone Tools
Jason LefkowitzMy father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
Ben Zanin@jalefkowit psst @tomjennings 👀↑↑
Danielle Crawford@jalefkowit i wrote so many school papers in Select86. If i ever want to see how bad they were, I’ll need a greaseweazle and a LOT of patience
@jalefkowit I hope I did it justice for you.
CryptoMoose@jalefkowit yep, did this and even had a look at Emerald Bay...
David Penfold 
@jalefkowit After doing COBOL and BASIC on an intensive course aged 18-19 I quickly moved on to dBase II, III and Clipper. Started off on CP/M too.
It's mad how the whole industry has evolved since then. Never a fan of OO programming though.
Walrus 🏴I wrote a whole customer records, transaction recording, and billing system in dBase, ages ago. A really usable language.
Armin Hanisch@jalefkowit Building a CRM system in dBase II, migrating it to III and extending it was one of my first programming gigs mid of the 80s. 🤗
bunnyhero@jalefkowit ooh i used dBASE at a summer job once!
John Rockefeller@jalefkowit I'd love to learn more about your father doing this, because dBASE has always been this mysterious software monolith that I never saw anyone use
Hector Correa@jalefkowit OMG the dBase video on that post is priceless. I haven't seen the dBase screens in so many years, it was revolutionary at the time! I moved from dBase to FoxBase, to Clipper and eventually to FoxPro. I have fond memories of those days.