>>>I will, however, remind people of what happened with last time FoxPro was modified due to a change in the underlying OS. We got VFP. If significant internal changes are to be made, the time to do it is when you're modifying it to take advantage of a new OS. So...
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>>...may I remind you that VFP3.0 was published before W95? And 5.0 came out before W98. VFP is actually so strong that each time they have to introduce an operating system where it could show its power.
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>Hiya Dragan,
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>The point is that 3.0 was written to the Win32 spec, which existed long before the release of 95. In order to do so, numerous and significant internal changes were required. At this point in time, the Win64 spec has been out for some time, and, it's my hunch, that the next version of VFP was written against it. I doubt that if it were written to Win32 that it would have been demoed on Win2K, which is a 64 bit OS. Since there are numerous changes in the Win64 spec (new data types, functions, etc.) this would be the time for significant internal changes in the VFP internals, just as occurred with VFP 3.
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>Like the line about VFP's power, however.< g >

This is a method of building an alternative history :). They actually published VFP before the corresponding version of the OS each time, so - post hoc, ergo propter hoc :)