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Your crystal ball?
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08/10/2020 23:15:38
 
 
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08/10/2020 15:58:39
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01676408
Message ID:
01676527
Views:
73
Only issue I would even partially agree about is lack of Unicode support, but a few workarounds exist for that.

>>I believe it is a misconception that you have to leave VFP for anything else. I have never found anything, desktop or browser, that cannot be done easily with VFP and FoxInCloud.
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>Only two serious things were never resolved in Fox
>- dependence on Windowses
>- unicode
>
>Everything else could be delegated to either some ActiveX or external processes, in those rare cases when doing it in pure fox would take too much time or be too complicated. Nowadays, the lack of unicode is a serious thing. Last time I had an app that had to accept input in two languages, I was extremely lucky one of them was english, which is a subset of every other codepage anyway.
>
>>Converting apps is expensive and time consuming, and despite what salesmen from various vendors will tell you, not necessary.
>>I had a young programmer very proud of the large company that had him replace a massive VFP app with some bleeding edge tech. I asked him why, and he said "that is how I make money." I pressed him fior any business case at all, but he had none, Very typical.
>
>He did tell you his business case :).
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