>>The worst disappointment was the Office automation. Not because it's inconsistent, memory hungry, slow or clumsy (it is all of that), it's that it's a house on sand. Whatever you do may not work with the next version. I have VFP code, parts of which were written in 1989, which still works.
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>1989? VFP3 didn't come out until mid-1995. COM-based automation wasn't introduced by Microsoft until 1993.
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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro#Version_Timeline
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
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>I have some code from 1989 that still works (1987 even), but it's not VFP code. Just generic XBASE code that was written for Fox Software's Multi-user FoxBASE+ 2.x.

Maybe he meant assembly libraries (Load and Call) that were available before VFP (not COM but was cool assembly support, I was disappointed to see it went away with VFP).