Harbour (programming language)

Harbour is a computer programming language, primarily used to create database/business programs. It is a modernized, 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.

Harbour Project
Paradigmmulti-paradigm: imperative, functional, object-oriented, reflective
Designed byAntonio Linares
DeveloperViktor Szakáts and community
First appeared1999 (1999)
Stable release
3.0.0 / 17 July 2011 (2011-07-17)
Preview release
Typing disciplineOptionally duck, dynamic, safe, partially strong
OSCross-platform
LicenseOpen-source GPL-compatible
Filename extensions.prg, .ch, .hb, .hbp
Websiteharbour.github.io
Dialects
Clipper, Xbase++, FlagShip, FoxPro, xHarbour
Influenced by
dBase, Clipper
Influenced
xHarbour

Harbour code using the same databases 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), BeOS/Haiku, AIX and MS-DOS.

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