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>>>So maybe there were times when it wasn't explicitly dissed, but it was never properly marketed either. And still it survived 16 years so.
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>>Just shows how GOOD a language it IS..... too bad MS in its greed had to deep-six it to force everyone over to their money-maker MS-SQL.
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>>Things must be pretty screwed-up at MS if they had to pull off the FoxPro programmers to anchor up the rest of their crappy coded products (Vista, SQL 2008, the next version of Windows.....).
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>And even there, I wonder how many times have these guys thrown the towel in and said "OK OK OK we'll do it your way".
Somehow I picture it a little different: "Too bad you don't want to sell it", says the programmer, leaving the compiler switches enabling windows mobile working still in the code. That is, after he found and eliminated a few wrong type declarations by making sure it works under X64 as well...
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