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From
05/04/2017 15:08:30
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Contracts, agreements and general business
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 10
Network:
Novell 6.x
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01649781
Message ID:
01649816
Views:
143
>>Yes, there will still be Fox apps running in 5 years and even further. Note I referenced the U.S. in my original reply, as I recognize Fox is more popular in other countries right now.

My Fox isn't Fox anymore. As an example, ASM code for encryption and compression now is inlined into my prgs with the vast majority of old VFP code now compiled to C++ with no need for a VFP runtime. Currently experimenting with C++ SQL Server and SQLLite direct access to eliminate ODBC driver snafus. The goal is to allow the customer to maintain a handful of app files and a config file that can be xcopied to literally any desktop with expectation it will just work even if it's a home worker's PC. Other language users may no longer fear the old DLL Hell but still need to worry about large support libraries and all sorts of joy if 2 apps insist on their own library versions. My stuff isn't easy to hack either, because apart from the difficulty making sense of decompiled C++, there's fiendishly clever (not my work!) hack detection using assembly language that few mortals still can pick apart, scattered throughout. Currently I'm seriously investigating 64-bit compilation because the new x64 IDE does seem quicker than the old thunked x86 VFP. Conclusion: in 2017, Xbase code merely is the human-readable first step along the path to C++ dlls.
"... 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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