My first programming language was dBASE, soon after which I started using Clipper, a superset of dBASE which compiled to p-code based binaries. It had a thrivin

My first programming language was dBASE, soon after which I started using Clipper, a superset of dBASE which compiled to p-code based binaries. It had a thriving third party library market, and supported code blocks (anonymous functions) and much more. Clipper was also abandoned by Computer Associates who bought it from the original Nantucket Corporation. There are however two open-source projects that are still being actively developed: Harbour (http://www.harbour-project.org/ http://www.harbour-project.org/) and xHarbour (http://xharbour.org/ http://xharbour.org/). Both are being used by enterprises that still has xBase apps around.