Pascal,

Just in December the accepted true here was that a .NET version of VFP was not feasible, not Local Cursor, not dynamic capabilities, etc. Now We have a compiler that has that capabilities and that can compile not just snippets, instead thousands of lines, dozens of classes, and this is only the beginning.

Right now, the big limitation is that we don't have all the runtime of VFP only a part. But from where We are to the completion of that, it is really possible, specially because we can build it in VFP itself, test it in VFP and that is a really big difference.



>Pertti,
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>Nowadays it's quit risky here on the UT not to have a 100% VFP friendly opinion, and for that reason I decided not to contribute to the 'no vfp10' threads anymore, but as you ask me directly I'll answer with the risk of being called arrogant, unintelligent, badly educated, etc ...
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>1. I can hardly imagine that it is possible to recompile a VFP project into a working .net application. It's not because today it is possible to compile programsnippets that the same will be possible with a whole application.
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>2. Even if someone is able to do so (which would be a fantastic accomplishment), I guess the resulting code will be not that easy to read, maintain and to build further on, nor would it used what's considered 'best practice'.
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>3. A good example was the path foxpro followed itself : technically it was possible to migrate from foxpro for dos to the windows version and from there to VFP. The gap between those was tiny compared to the gap between VFP and .net. I don't know if you tried but those conversions were not a huge success (which is an understatement)
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>Greetings,
>Pascal.
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>>Pascal,
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>>Why is it hilarious?
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>>Not that I'm personally offended, although I'm volunteering some of my time on this what you call "Quixote" attempt. To use another analogy, people are just trying to build a life boat here in order to make an organized transition from a sinking ship to another one that isn't sinking. This way they are also able to haul some of their most valuable possessions from one ship to another, rather than letting them disappear with the sinking one. Sure beats beind tossed overboard into the drink, "sink-or-swim" -style.
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>>And what is it to you, anyway, how people attempt to make this transition? Is your advice to scrap the existing huge codebase and rewrite it from scratch in [your favorite language goes here]? Or do you have anything constructive to offer, instead of knowing smirks from the sidelines?
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>>There's a lot of hyperbely on all sides (and why sides, anyway?) about this situation, for sure. At least to me this is neither David vs. Goliath (nobody's trying to kill a giant here), nor is it Quixotic (there's real, working proof to work against, rather than charging at windmills here). This is just and simply an effort to make an organized transition, and I for one applaud the effort, regardless of how it may or may not eventually turn out.
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>>I don't think VFP is the do-all-end-all language for the end of times, by any means. I do think, however, that many of the great metadata, local cursor manipulation, untyped flexibility and interpreted language features are, at least currently, sorely missing in, say, .NET. IronPython is a good example of a possible renessaince and acceptance of interpreted languages into .NET. If another (e.g., eTecnologia's) compiler is eventually successfull in bridging the mainly static .NET world and the mainly dynamic VFP world, that would be a huge boost for everyone involved, not just people trying to migrate their apps from VFP to .NET. It could enrich the .NET environment way beyond what it currently is.
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>>Pertti
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>>>>>>I wish you success in a david vs goliath project.
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>>>>>Funny again that some people compare this project with David/Goliath, others with Don quichote ...
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>>>>You are here because ...
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>>>Sorry, I'm in the 2nd category ... and sorry again, when I learned about this project (VFP compiler for .net) I found the idea quit hilarius. I tend to compare it with the frankenstein story, the idea is noble, the result ...