Clipper

Clipper is an actively used programming language created in 1985. Clipper is an xBase compiler, which is a computer programming language, that is used to create software programs that originally operated primarily under MS-DOS. Although it is a powerful general-purpose programming language, it was primarily used to create database/business programs.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• Clipper ranks in the top 5% of languages
• the Clipper website
• the Clipper wikipedia page
• Clipper first appeared in 1985
• See also: xbase, c, visual-objects, visual-basic, delphi, xbasepp, linux, unix, visual-foxpro, sql, dbase
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Example code from the Hello World Collection:

// Hello World in Clipper

? "Hello World"

Example code from Wikipedia:

USE Customer SHARED NEW
clear
@  1, 0 SAY "CustNum" GET Customer->CustNum PICT "999999" VALID Customer->CustNum > 0
@  3, 0 SAY "Contact" GET Customer->Contact VALID !empty(Customer->Contact)
@  4, 0 SAY "Address" GET Customer->Address
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Last updated December 4th, 2019

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