Talk:xBase

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I edited the entry on Visual Foxpro from saying it is available from Microsoft to "was" available. VFP was last updated in 2007 (8 years ago) and is not available from Microsoft at any price. It also isn't compatible with Windows 7 or 8. I have clients that are still using VFP and I have been a developer using VFP since the mid 1990's. I am currently porting their software to supported code so they can upgrade their operating systems.

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.70.113.182 (talk) 17:09, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Why was dBASE created? What could it do? How does it compare to other languages? How about a code example?

See the dBASE topic for details.

I wonder if the name xBase only applies to dBase-like programming languages, as this page seems to say, or also to database engines or database managent systems using the dBase file structure. For example the Apollo products by Vista Software (I don't know them by experience but they do not seem to use dBase syntax). Bever —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.10.149.151 (talk) 04:48, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Xbase generally refers to the language (both syntax and structure). Applications or tools that use this language were considered "Xbase" regardless of file structure. --69.106.232.240 (talk) 07:32, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Why is the language itself not described here then? Instead, it seems to be described multiple times, on each article about a particular compiler implementation, as if they are taking credit for the language itself! All standard language description should be in this article, while the articles about specific compilers should only note differences from the standard base. Yworo (talk) 01:21, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I disagree that it mostly refers to the language. It often also refers to the data file formats derived from dBASE and dialect "clones" because in practice they are usually used hand-in-hand. (Anon.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.233.255.202 (talk) 23:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Most popular?

Which is currently the most popular xBase variant, I suppose it is Visual FoxPro? Though as Microsoft bought that up then abandoned it, I might ask instead what is the most popular xBase variant which is still be actively supported?? As there are *so many* xBase variants, some of which are very old and abandoned by the tiny community which they used it have, it can be hard for a newcomer to select which xBase to use? A reference on this in the article would be very handy indeed. At personal guess I'd say probably dBase, Harbour (software), or xHarbour. This seems like the most useful resource: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clipper_Tutorial:_a_Guide_to_Open_Source_Clipper%28s%29 Except of course it is another wiki :-/ So can't really use it as a reference. Mathmo ^Talk 02:24, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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