I'll give you the fact that PHP has many more free and cheap web apps available. But people are just plain deluding themselves if they think they're switching to a better programming language by converting to PHP. If you really think you need that boost in performance, go to .NET,
Python, even Java. Not PHP.

VFP reminds me of the old Mark Twain saying (loosely):
"Rumors of my demise are greatly over exaggerated."


>I could argue against some of these, but I said I wouldn't. I could also find someone that knows both PHP and VFP that could make a bullet point list on why PHP is better. I'm also pretty sure that COBOL programmers had their bullet list on the benefits of COBOL for many years. The bottom line, VFP is better at *SOMETHINGS* and PHP is better at others.
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>>It's worth repeating:
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>>VFP is better than PHP because:
>>VFP uses ISAPI (PHP uses FASTCGI and discourages ISAPI for stability reasons)
>>VFP can truly multi-thread using a VFP MTDLL and can spawn a background thread (PHP cannot. PERIOD)
>>VFP has had memory garbage collection for quite some time (I believe this is a fairly recent addition to PHP)
>>VFP compiles to intermediate bytecode (PHP DOES NOT!)
>>VFP has a built-in and integrated database. PHP does NOT!
>>VFP is almost guaranteed to work better on Windows because of Microsoft's long involvement with it
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>>If Iyou've got existing VFP code and experience and your customers are not demanding that you use something different because of "something they heard about foxpro", it's pretty much a no-brainer if you want to save money and time.