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Why is Professional Investigator written in Clarion, not MS Access or Visual FoxPro like other programs I've heard of?
Quite simply, because Clarion is the best tool for the job!
Clarion for Windows is the most efficient, professional and economical solution in the marketplace today!
What does this mean to you? It means that Clarion runs on all versions of Windows and produces applications that are 'industry-standard'. They look like they were written by
Microsoft. If you can use and understand MS Office, you can use and understand a Clarion application.
Compare this with products written in Visual FoxPro or MS Access. They look old fashioned and non-standard and, consequently, are a lot harder to understand and learn.
The single most important benefit of Clarion is reduced software development effort. Clarion developers complete projects in a third of the time required by Visual Basic (VB), Delphi,
Visual FoxPro, MS Access or PowerBuilder developers.
This means that if you find a bug or ask for an enhancement, they are done typically within a day or two!
The performance of a Clarion application is the same as one written in the C language. That means it's fast!
Only a very talented C or Delphi programmer can match the performance of a Clarion program. It is impossible to produce Clarion performance with Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, MS Access or PowerBuilder.
Consider Microsoft Access, a database manager. You program Access by providing a script to "play". Then, Access "acts out" your application for you. That's why Access
is so huge. It is full of all the "parts" it must play to perform every application imaginable. On some machines this hugeness results in unstable performance and even crashes.
Access is as slow as a snail because it must "interpret" scripts from its language into machine language while your application is running.
With Clarion, this process occurs during the development cycle. Clarion programs are sent to you already as machine code. So they are small, fast and guaranteed to work on your machine.
Every time. You ask any of our users, Clarion programs don't crash!
Delphi, Visual Basic, and PowerBuilder applications are typically eight to ten times larger than Clarion applications because they are a lot less efficient. And as we've said before,
larger means slower.
The Clarion language was designed specifically for writing Windows business programs.
It is the only Windows language with built-in support for database access. It is the only Windows language with built-in support for printing reports. As amazing as this sounds, Clarion is the only Windows
language with accurate business math! In fact, Clarion arithmetic produces perfect results of up to 31 decimal digits without introducing rounding errors.
In contrast, most other programming 'languages' have no database access commands. None of them support programmable reports, and most use floating point arithmetic, which is notorious for
lost arithmetic significance and precision.
No wonder the program you want to use to run your business, Professional Investigator, is written in Clarion!
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