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====== xBase Dialects ======

The xBase family of languages comes from Ashton Tate's DBase product. There were several descendants, and only some of them have retained importance.
DBase was a database environment. Code was not compiled, but present with sources, and to execute DBase programs, a license of the product was needed.

 - Nantucket Clipper

Clipper was built to solve two main problems of DBase: only the developer had to have a license of the product, and the Clipper compiler built self contained executables (a sort of p-code, not machine code).
Clipper was one of the most used development environments for database applications in the MS-DOS Area.
The company was acquired by CA Computer Associates. 
As for DBase, Clipper had several descendants: Visual Objects, XBase++, Harbour (see below)
More details: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_(programming_language)]]

 - Foxbase FoxPro

 - Ashton Tate dBase