Editing Clipper (programming language) (section)

===Decline===
In the early 1990s, under new ownership,<ref name=DobCA95/> Clipper failed to transition from [[DOS]] to [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]. As a result, almost no new commercial applications were written in Clipper after 1995.

By then, the "classically trained programmer" commonly used [[Strong and weak typing|strong typing]], in contrast to the original dBASE language. An evolution of Clipper, named VO, added strong typing but made it optional, to remain compatible with existing code.<ref name=DobCA95/> Four of the more important languages that took over from Clipper were [[Visual Basic]], [[Microsoft Access]], [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]], and [[Powerbuilder]]. All provided strong typing.