Anyone who's used dBase/Clipper/FoxPro would find it deeply enjoyable! ![]() Excellent product, extremely wide adoption for building business applications until FoxPro 2.6 for DOS.įor a detailed history of FoxPro, read FoxTales by Kerry Nietz. ![]() In parallel, there was FoxBase, originally a cheaper and then faster version of dBase, which was then turned to FoxPro with its separate command window and output window (thanks to a port to the original Mac GUI which necessitated it). Versions of Clipper became their own language, and remains my most favorite programming language. It was primarily marketed as a compiler for dBase. So a couple of folks formed Nantucket and built Clipper Summer 87. dBase was interpreted - you needed the source. Everything that came after was a trash-fire. ![]() The best release of dBase was dBase III Plus. It is the greatest NoCode tool of all times. Wayne Ratliff, in the late 70s, built a revolutionary piece of tech: a high-level memory-managed language that regular people could use (from early 80s!) to build database-backed user interfaces.
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