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dBase Dead

dBase
KindProgramming language
Appeared1979
StatusDead
CreatorWayne Ratliff / Ashton-Tate
FamilyxBase
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Vulcan renamed — the language inside the database that ran the 80s PC business world; its syntax became the xBase dynasty.

Created by Wayne Ratliff
Descendants Clipper FoxPro

Ashton-Tate's dBASE (1980) — Wayne Ratliff's Vulcan — was the first microcomputer database language: dot-prompt commands, .dbf files, and the xBase empire.\n\nClipper, FoxPro, and dBASE IV fought over it; the .dbf format survives in shapefiles and legacy data everywhere.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBASE