4 engineers on Hacker News describe using dBASE first-hand: 0 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“all my DB experience had been with either dBase (I think III plus or IV) and access”
neutral · production · fipar · 2026-04-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our application originated in ~1986 in dBase II, then we switched to FoxBase”
neutral · production · lakkal · 2021-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At the time I was managing a dBase / FoxPro medical software package... Eventually we migrated off the whole stack over the next few years”
neutral · production · _red · 2020-03-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“and some dBASE at work, before we switched over to C at school”
neutral · production · Roboprog · 2016-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?