There were even commercial packages for that. One of the disadvantages, for commercial developers at least, was that a clipper executable could easily be disassembled or de-compiled to produce native source code. Libraries were also made by third parties but the programmer could also create its own library or enhance the existing ones. When you missed a feature, an interface or whatever you could program that yourself and the extension made a reusable part of your toolbox. One of the language’s features: the possibility to link ‘C’ and machine language objects made it a virtual unlimited expandable environment. Clipper often served as a front end exactly for the above mentioned mainframe applications and did very well in this area. Many applications for banking and insurance companies were developed were the application was considered too small to be developed and run on mainframes. Millions of applications were built typically for businesses dealing with small databases like client management, stock keeping. Originally is was used as a replacement programming language for Ashton Tate’s dbase II database environment that could be compiled and executed as a standalone application. Ĭlipper was a typical database development language and DOS based. Developed by Nantucket software and released in winter of 1984, first shipping.
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