In my first post, I want to talk about one of the rarest and oldest programming languages - Clarion. I am familiar with the entire line of these wonderful languages from 2.1 onwards 5.0, 6.0, 6.3, 8 and up to 9.1 to the present moment. I will gradually tell you the general details of this technology, few people may find it useful, but there is very little information about this technology on the modern Internet, so I want to keep the memory of this technology on the Internet.
My first "contact" happened about 15-16 years old, when I, by chance, met a programmer at work with my parents. It was a bearded man named Evgeny Ivanovich. I was immediately attracted by his conversations about Databases, operators, variables, functions ...
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