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From
28/10/2015 15:22:38
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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28/10/2015 11:25:47
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Visual FoxPro and .NET
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows 10
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01626037
Message ID:
01626574
Views:
51
>>Universal Windows Apps can be WPF or HTML/JS.

IMHO the winner won't have the name of an OS in its label. IMHO an interpreted 4GL over platform-specific runtime is going to sweep the field in time. Not sure why it's taking so long- even before Dr Dave promoted the idea, Andy Gariepy was onto it in the 1980s and the decision to focus on Mac followed by some disasters and missteps is the reason most Microsofties never heard of him. I had personal experience on the TRS80 where his ZBasic compiler costing less than $100 produced very tight Z80 binaries a fraction of the size of the TRSBasic source that ran like scalded cats. A modern Andy can transform development and make themselves a fortune- as long as they don't lose sight of the cross platform ideology (or sell to a vendor with a vested interest in a single platform.)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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