Clarion - Programming language

Clarion is a programming language created in 1986.

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Clarion is a commercial, 4GL, multi-paradigm, programming language and Integrated Development Environment from SoftVelocity used to program database applications. It is compatible with ISAM, SQL and ADO data access methods, reads and writes several flat file desktop database formats including ASCII, CSV, DOS (Binary), FoxPro, Clipper, dBase, and some relational databases via ODBC, MS SQL Server, Sybase SQL Anywhere and Oracle through the use of accelerated native database drivers, and XML, Clarion can be used to output to HTML, XML, plaintext, and PDF, among others. The Clarion Development Environment (IDE) sits on top of the Clarion Programming Language. Read more on Wikipedia...

Clarion website
Clarion Wikipedia page
There are at least 223 Clarion repos on GitHub
Clarion first developed in Jensen & Partners International and Clarion International and SoftVelocity
file extensions for Clarion include clw
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 252 users using Clarion in 278 repos on GitHub
Explore Clarion snippets on Rosetta Code
Clarion on HOPL
Clarion appears in the TIOBE Index
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Clarion
softvelocity.com was registered in 2000
See also: (9 related languages)SQL, ASCII, CSV, FoxPRO, DBase, XML, HTML, PDF, Turbo Pascal

Example from the Hello World Collection:

!Hello World in Clarion 
 
  PROGRAM
 
 MAP
 END
 
 CODE
 
 MESSAGE('Hello World!')
 
 RETURN

Example from Linguist:

  PROGRAM

  MAP
  END

  CODE

  MESSAGE('Hello World!')

  RETURN

Example from Wikipedia:

PROGRAM
     MAP
     END
   CODE
     MESSAGE('Hello World!','Clarion')
     RETURN