1993 — The beginning
- Early xBase tooling and teaching materials
- First experiments with inspectable file formats
2000s — Practical iteration
- Field-tested workflows
- Refinement of indexing and memo handling concepts
2010s — Language & tooling
- Scripting approaches aimed at education and repeatable data work
- CLI-first utilities for inspection and maintenance
2026 — Canonical unification
- DBF_64 and FPT64 formalized
- Documentation, licensing, curriculum, and tooling consolidated under a single platform
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