What is CA-Visual Objects?

 CA-Visual Objects is an object-oriented Windows-based applications
 development environment with repository-based source management
 and an incremental compiler.  It includes interfaces to many
 major database engines via the ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity?)
 standard.

 The compiler itself supports a hybrid of xBase and C/C++
 techniques; it will, for example, generate straight machine code
 instead of pseudo-code if you supply proper typing information
 or if it can figure this out from context.

 CA-Visual Objects is the spiritual descendant of Nantucket's
 old "Aspen" project.