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> Bad acquisitions were another one, with Borland buying dBase and Microsoft buying FoxBase

Amen. Add also Nantucket (Clipper) being acquired by CA (Computer Associates) which pretty much killed Clipper.



Quick shoutout to xHarbour and Harbour - the open-source, commercially-supported versions of Clipper. https://github.com/harbour/core

The projects are still going strong and many years ago I had ported a huge Clipper project into Harbour and had it working well across a 20 node network with both Clipper and Harbour binaries working simultaneously on the same database.

These days every time I make another web application I wish for the simplicity of xBase. But there is some core truth about application development hidden there that is lost to me now.


Thanks for posting. I was a Clipper app developer in the 80's and early 90's, and seeing my old friends TBColumn() and TBrowse() just gave me a rush of nostalgia :)


Yep, Visual Object had nothing to do with Clipper experience.




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