what is clipper database
Clipper was originally created in 1985 as a compiler for dBASE III, a very popular database language at the time.Compiling dBASE code changes it from interpreted code, which must be interpreted every time each line of code is executed, to p-code, which uses a Virtual Machine to process the compiled p-code.p-code is considerably faster, but still not as fast as the machine code generated by native compilers.ompiling dBASE code changes it from interpreted code, which must be interpreted every time each line of code is executed, to p-code, which uses a Virtual Machine to process the compiled p-code. p-code is considerably faster, but still not as fast as the machine code generated by native compilers.