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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.
THisThis is antonio linares assertion:
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.
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Then I proposed "Harbour" (Sylvia's proposal) and it was widely accepted :-)"
 
 
 
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