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Dead end tools and technologies you wished you hadn't bothered with

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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    Feck that rings a bell.
    The bell was tolling for Modula 2 the day it got released...

    Clipper.

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      Originally posted by AtW View Post
      The bell was tolling for Modula 2 the day it got released...

      Clipper.
      Another bell. I never used either of them mind.

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        Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
        Another bell. I never used either of them mind.
        Me neither - when I saw 1 MB executable made by Clipper in days of 640 KB RAM - it was like

        At the time I was writing very tight assembly code - Spod was making me tea

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          Windows Server 2008 MCwotsit course.

          Arrogant company owner running the course. Go to his personal website hoping to see something like "I run a successful company" and he comes out with "Who am I? I write books".

          Obviously bright employees who could have been good in other spheres, but totally wasted in that company.

          Racist set of bastards as well.

          I walked because it was so crap.
          Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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            Originally posted by eek View Post
            Thats a mere £40,000 a year. I've easily spent that in the past 15.
            Please don't remind me...
            Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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              Originally posted by AtW View Post
              Me neither - when I saw 1 MB executable made by Clipper in days of 640 KB RAM - it was like

              At the time I was writing very tight assembly code - Spod was making me tea
              I'm quite happy to make tea for my employees, I'll get you pizza too, anything for you to meet the ******* deadline you lazy bastard!

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                Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
                I'm quite happy to make tea for my employees, I'll get you pizza too, anything for you to meet the ******* deadline you lazy bastard!
                WIS

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                  Originally posted by AtW View Post
                  Me neither - when I saw 1 MB executable made by Clipper in days of 640 KB RAM - it was like

                  At the time I was writing very tight assembly code - Spod was making me tea
                  Made a small fortune developing in Clipper and after it became less popular as Windoze came along lots of legacy stuff to be kept alive
                  Me, me, me...

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                    Poet was a good one for me, German Java OO DB mapping tool, pile of absolute turd. Now we are all slaves to Hibernate which is another pile of turd.

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                      MS Paperclip. Just as I figured out how to make maximum productive use out of that guy... he vanished.

                      Der going over der to get der der's.

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