When Computer Associates stopped supporting this language, it was intended for application development for MS-DOS platforms and offered libraries for network support.īecause it uses a language standard originally developed by Ashton Tate and existing since the CP / M operating systems, it has a syntax quite different from the most current languages. It is a derivative of Clipper Summer, and after being acquired by Computer Associates it reached version 5.3B, implemented by a graphical interface compatible with MS-Windows 3.11 and by a subset of support for the languages C and Assembly, which made an object-oriented prototype possible.
It was created in 1984 with the purpose of being a compiler for Ashton-Tate dBase, a database manager very popular in its time. Clipper (or CA-Clipper ) is a 16-bit compiler of the xBase language for the DOS environment.
