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I started to write with Dbase 1 and 2

• steveeq1 7y ago
  There was no "dbase 1", it started as "dbase 2" because Ashton Tate didn't want the product to sound premature.
  • teh_klev 7y ago
    To be fair, they probably mean dBase II and dBase III. Although they could mean Vulcan and dBase II, which is less likely. I started my "database" programming career on dBase II in the early 80's and never bumped into Vulcan.
    • tabtab 7y ago
      dBASE III and dBASE III+ were different enough that they are generally considered two different "big release" products. I used to automate a lot of grunt work by putting code in dBASE tables. It's real easy to do that. You can make a sophisticated menu system using mostly just tables with code embedded. I was quite productive back then without having to type a lot.
      • teh_klev 7y ago
        I remember when dBase III+ shipped, there were some nice new features though we moved over to Clipper when that launched and completely avoided the "joy" of dBase IV. I did also try out another couple of compilers called Quicksilver and dBXL, but Clipper ate their lunch. I wrote quite a few tens of thousands of lines of code in Clipper (using the BRIEF editor) all the way up until ~1998. By then I'd more or less switched to VB+SQL Server. Gotta say I really loved working with Clipper, it was a really nice superset of dBase but had many of it's own specific design features.
  • GrumpyNl 7y ago
    You are right, it was 2 then 3 then clipper for me, it has been a while. The compiling with clipper took around 45 minutes, we always went to the cafe to play some billiards in the waiting time.