>>>It's more likely that people are adding RPG or CICS/COBOL to their arsenals than Fox.
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>I reluctantly concluded that Fox was a spent force in 1995 when Sigler damned the newly released VFP3 with faint praise.

Vfp3 was a dog for me as well - with 5 it was reason to abandon (mostly extended DOS for me) 2.x FP.

>But I'm still a believer in 4GL languages that can be interpreted or compiled to something useful. The first one of those I used was Andy Gariepy's compiler for TRS-Basic in the 1970s. It converted bulky TRS-Basic code into Z80 instructions = compact and quick, but also offered cross-platform options including MSDOS and Apple. That's how long people have known how to turn proprietary interpreted 4GL into something hot that works cross platform. So why are we instead reduced to Rube Goldberg artisan sculpturing for mobile development all these decades later? You tell me.


Pascal P-code at first was a real slow down compared to native - remember speed benefit of Turbo Pascal vs. P-code ?