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Replacing a Fox with a Mojo... That's a killer beast kil
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11/11/2023 18:28:16
 
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Visual FoxPro
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>I'm glad you took the time to review the two modules.
>Sounds like in general you think these two have a chance of working.

Yupp, current ARM is strong enough for such tools
(or web servers cheap&powerful to build single use Reflex stuff)

From mid 80s to late 90s I was famous for bringing huge towers -
some of my tasks needed SCSI HD arrays to reach a few GB

from mid 90s on I went everywhere with at least a laptop in car,
if big iron was not needed for that week,

This millenium saw better laptops and me sometimes only
carry USB disks, then USB sticks to use at local machines.

Today every ARM device I have has either 200 or 400 GB mDisc,
only seldom I carry external HD with encapsulated x64 VMs
This leaves mostly creating Texts or analyzing Excel data -
sometimes exploratory search with quick hacked Javascript.

vfp will not run on Android devices, so I am left to
switch over to either Python or Javascript on carry devices -
and Python has great legs in Data,
while Javascript is closer to most things web based.

So having an option to create/subclass "use again" scripts
without elaborate eye candy, deep menus or user afterthought,
accessing serverless Postgres or local SQLite (or perhaps DuckDB?)
but output above REPL is something to aim for ;-)

Getting usable results fast is a benefit - if runaway success happens
and shows that first implementation does not scale enough,
ample funds to optimize or rewrite should be there.

Using Python might give me an edge, as my Web/JS skills
are full of holes compared to those devs doing that for decades.
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