dBase III+ came with a bit of an embedded programming language, the logical extension of which was the Clipper programming language (from CA, by the time I came

dBase III+ came with a bit of an embedded programming language, the logical extension of which was the Clipper programming language (from CA, by the time I came along). It never got me to do Windows programming, I suppose the later versions must have eventually caught up, but/so I moved on. But it was a great combo for making database-based applications, for me as an aspiring programmer. I was a teenager, and probably the best feature of the dBase/Clipper combo was that I had a great mentor in my neighborhood. Never left programming, and gave up other passionate hobbies for it.