C. Wayne Ratliff (born 1946, Trenton, Ohio) wrote the database program dBASE II. Raised in Ohio and Germany, he now resides in the Los Angeles area. From 1969 to 1982, Ratliff worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA Viking program flight team when the Viking spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976, and wrote the data management system, MFILE, for the Viking lander support software. Wikipedia
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