My favourite programming tool, “Clarion For Windows” is soon to have a major version upgrade.
The company who develop the system, Softvelocity , have been working on the new Version 7 for several years.
Though the release of the new version has been delayed many times, I feel confident that it will be available within just a few more months.
There is to be two new versions, namely Version7 and a new .NET version. My take is that the Version7, for Windows 32 bit based programming, will be the first released.
The Clarion.NET version looks likely to follow a little later, as much more work is involved in its development. Softvelocity have said that both versions are working up to a point, but are not yet ready for release.
The delays in release of the new versions has many developers aggravated as they had planned new projects using the promised features of the new versions. You would think that as software developers themselves, they would understand the difficulty in providing firm release dates new products. But, sadly not. Some seem to have decided to switch to using other available tools to develop their newer projects.
When Clarion7 and Clarion.NET do become available, there will be a lot of happy and busy programmers out there in cyberland, including myself.
John
