>>>>Hello
>>>>Anybody of you know why Microsoft did not give importance to foxpro since it was bought from Ashton Tate, visual basic had more advertising :(
>>>>Luis Martin
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>>>FoxPro was by Fox Software! Ashton-Tate made dBase (ecch).
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>>Don't knock dBase. It's because of it that I am where I am today (erm, painted into a corner! :-) and when III+ first appeared for the PC it was the only RDBMS product out there that I'm aware of, that brought the theory of RDBMS (which I learnt at college) into reality. I thought it was dead sexy at the time too and did some cool graphic i/fs with the primitive graphics char set it had.
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>I had a course in dBaseIII+ in college, and my first full-time IT job had me maintaining a lot of dBase code. At the time I much preferred Pascal as my language of choice. Then I gave FoxBase+ a try running some of the really slow dBase code. The speed difference was astounding! Suddenly I had a database package that was FAST!

Oh I'm not saying it's better than Fox or Clipper, or whatever, just that it gave me my start in xBase and it was on dBASE II+ being in my CV that I got offered my first job in FP, maintaining some crap code that a s/w engineer had written for a DBMS. When I found the code to be "throwing good money after bad" I rewrote the system in the - NEW - VFP3