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dBase can access most modern database engines via ODBC drivers. dBase features an IDE with a Command Window and navigator, a just in time compiler, a preprocessor, a virtual machine interpreter, a linker for creating dBase application .exe's, a freely available runtime engine, and numerous two-way GUI design tools.

 

In addition to the dot-prompt, dBase III, III+ and dBase IV is packaged with an ASSIST application to manipulate data and queries, as well as APPSGEN application which allows the user to generate applications without resorting to code writing like 4GL. Some people find dBase to be an excellent interactive ad-hoc data manipulation tool. With dBase, one can more easily manipulate, format, analyze and perform calculations on individual records, strings, numbers and so on in a step-by-step way.

 

As an application development platform, dBase fills a gap between lower level languages such as C, C++, and Java and high level proprietary fourth generation languages and purely visual tools, providing relative ease-of-use for business people with less formal programming skills and high productivity for professional developers willing to trade off the low-level control.