Paradox, now in its 11th version, is a constituent of Corel's Word Perfect X3 office suite, for 32-bit Microsoft Windows.
However, for what it is, ObjectPAL provides a wideranging and versatile language for creating Paradox applications.
The syntax and structure of the language resembles Visual Basic, but knowing Visual Basic would only help someone new to ObjectPAL in the sense that any other programming skill would be transferable to ObjectPAL.
ObjectPAL was the successor to PAL, which was the Paradox for DOS programming language.
With the advent of Paradox for Windows 1.0 in 1993, which was then owned by Borland Corporation, ObjectPAL was born.