


In the years between 19 millions of Clipper applications were built, typically for small businesses dealing with databases concerning many aspects of client management and inventory management. The advantage of Clipper over dBASE was that it could be compiled and executed under MS-DOS as a standalone application. Ĭlipper was created as a replacement programming language for Ashton Tate's dBASE III, a very popular database language at the time.

In 1992, the company was sold to Computer Associates for 190 million dollars and the product was renamed to CA-Clipper. Although it is a powerful general-purpose programming language, it was primarily used to create database/business programs.Ĭlipper was created by Nantucket Corporation, a company that was started in 1984 by Barry ReBell (management) and Brian Russell (technical). Written by Dave PearsonDave Pearson.Ĭlipper is an xBase compiler, which is a computer programming language, that is used to create software programs that originally operated primarily under MS-DOS.
