Harbour (programming language)
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Harbour is a computer programming language, primarily used to create database/business programs. It is a modernised, open source and cross-platform version of the older Clipper system, which in turn developed from the dBase database market of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Quick Facts Paradigm, Designed by ...
Paradigm | multi-paradigm: imperative, functional, object-oriented, reflective |
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Designed by | Antonio Linares |
Developer | Viktor Szakáts and community |
First appeared | 1999; 25 years ago (1999) |
Stable release | 3.0.0
/ 17 July 2011; 13 years ago (2011-07-17) |
Preview release | |
Typing discipline | Optionally duck, dynamic, safe, partially strong |
OS | Cross-platform |
License | Open-source GPL-compatible |
Filename extensions | .prg, .ch, .hb, .hbp |
Website | harbour |
Dialects | |
Clipper, Xbase++, FlagShip, FoxPro, xHarbour | |
Influenced by | |
dBase, Clipper | |
Influenced | |
xHarbour |
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Harbour code uses the same databases and can be compiled under a wide variety of platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix variants, several BSD descendants, Mac OS X, MINIX 3, Windows CE, Pocket PC, Symbian, iOS, Android, QNX, VxWorks, OS/2 (including eComStation and ArcaOS),[1] BeOS/Haiku, AIX and MS-DOS.