John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
>>Why target only VFP developers? Who else would want a VFP compiler at this point? Do you think new people are coming to the language? -- looking around at the available options and saying, "Yup, that's the one for me!" That hardly seems likely.
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>>I get what you are saying about the strengths of FoxPro. As you say, there are DOS apps still running and working. But why would those people want a .NET compiler?
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>I have a client for whom I maintain a DataFlex application. (Anyone remember DataFlex?) I would like to convince them to rewrite the app using a large FoxPro application that I own as a base. I'm worried about the question:
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>Why would we move from one deadend language to another deadend language?
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>A VFP.NET would remove that worry.
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>Peter
I doubt that it would. You'd have a lot of explaining. Our clients (financial firms) won't touch unproven technology so it would be a hard sell for vfp.net.
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