>>>Since you are big on open source, cross platform etc I'm kind of surprised you leap to the defense of VFP.
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>Not my intention to leap to the defense of anything- I was disappointed to see trickshots at a time when the whole market is moving in a different direction IMHO.
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>FWIW, IME newer languages can be very quick on multi-core machines. Running VFP on a 64bit machine adds another penalty- I can *see* a speed difference in one of our apps comparing a 1.8 XP machine to a 2.8 with 64bit OS. If all my customers used 64-bit workstations, that might be a consideration, but my expectation is that they'll go mobile long before they go 64bit, meaning that an issue that could have been extremely relevant (behavior on 64bit windows) isn't very interesting at all. I'd be much more interested to hear experiences about cross-platform options, which is what I think the OP was after as well.
I probably was wrong to interject the C# stuff in that thread. Should have just started something new as you are quite right, that's not what he was asking. It is just that his question aroused my own curiosity so that's where I posted the result. But you are correct that there was at one time a history of similar threads being hijacked by apostates.
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