![]() ![]() One of the big features, among others, of dBase was that it could find one record out of a billion by doing only 3 comparisons (on a 4.7 MHz computer) that took less than one second using index files as reference. Two very well use are XBase++ and xHarbour.īefore dBase came about, to find a record in a table you had to do a binary sort. When the Windows world came into the scenery, several companies wrote languages that are near 100% compatible with Clipper. I believe it was the most powerful relational database language of it's time and it is still in use by some large corporations because of it's simplicity and reliability. Later on, Nantucket was bought by Computer Associates who discontinued maintaining Clipper (last version was 5.3) in 1997. ![]() The story goes, while sitting in a bar on the island of Nantucket, in MA, and looking at a painting of a Clipper Ship. The original writers of Clipper were Ashton-Tate employees that formed a company named Nantucket. EXE files out of the code written for dBase III from Ashton-Tate, which was an interpretative language. Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using Clipper/XBase++.The Clipper Language was written originally to create executable. ![]() This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.
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