>>No use of SQL - that's one of the 2 big things I notice about really old xBASE code bases. The other - somewhat related - is if the code was started under FoxBASE+ where only 10 work areas were available. That could severely limit DB normalization and force the developer to go through gyrations with intermediate results tables and a lot of SET RELATION, SET KEY etc.
*shudder*. Very fragile, hard to understand and maintain.
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>Did you ever get to a point where you'd build a temporary index on an epression which would include a field from a related table? That was poor man's quick and dirty trick, before creating a cursor, with a specific Order By, was available.
Sounds like a cute trick, but I never had to do that - thankfully, I think (?)
For me, the SQL engine in FP/VFP was a joyous introduction to a declarative language < g >
Regards. Al
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