There were lawsuits flying left and right over the origin, which scared a lot of resources away from it. (It turned out Ashton-Tate stole it from NASA's JPL, wh

There were lawsuits flying left and right over the origin, which scared a lot of resources away from it. (It turned out Ashton-Tate stole it from NASA's JPL, who modified some of the keywords, but stole the concept from a defunct company and product called something like TymeShare.) I thought dBASE was a great language for small-project RAD and ad-hoc data fiddling. I could crank out smallish apps in hours.