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Sailing the Clipper ship to a Harbour port. Clipper is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_ship ship]. Harbour is a synonym to port (where ship docks) Harbour is out port to the Clipper language.
My wife Sylvia proposed it to me. We were driving in the car with the kids and we were talking about a name for the project. Curiously enough the road was beside the sea, and I told them "ocean" as a possible name. Then she answered: "harbour" :-)
THis is antonio linares assertion:
"Two years before that time, I was highly interested in learning how to build a compiler. A friend of mine introduced me to Lex and Yacc and I built an early prototype that I named "Five". I tried to follow the "Force" compiler (by Sophco) architecture (native xbase. No virtual machine used) and though I did a nice progress, I realized there were a lot of troubles going the "Force" way.
By that time Linux was already a huge success and I was reading many articles about cooperative development in Internet. It look quite incredible but I thought that if it worked for Linux, then it could also work for a Clipper compatible compiler.
Then I started a new Clipper compatible compiler, using this time a virtual machine, and then I went to comp.lang.clipper to propose to build it in an open source way, cooperative development, like Linux.
It was a huge success :-) Lots of developers shown a big interest in the project like Ryszard, Dave Pearson, etc. and started helping to organize the open source project.
Then I proposed "Harbour" (Sylvia's proposal) and it was widely accepted :-)"
== See also ==
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