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Rename FoxPro!
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
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00279092
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>>>>>At the risk of starting a lengthy, useless thread -- does anybody else feel, as I do, that "FoxPro" is a dumb name? Saying it out loud makes me squirm!
>>>>>
>>>>>I am aware of the proud history of the FoxPro name, but nonetheless I hate it. How about "Visual X" (as in "xBase") for the next release? It sounds cool and streamlined, and would make it look right at home alongside other Microsoft development tools. (But please, no "++"!)
>>>>>
>>>>>Whaddaya think?
>>>>
>>>>Yeah, how about ProFox++! That's much better!!!
>>>
>>>I have a cool name:
>>>
>>>VDB - VisualDataBasic.
>>>
>>>It will totally confuse IT managers.
>>>:)
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>>Well, we already have Visual Basic, right? So wouldn't we want to go with something like Visual Advanced++? The next step from VB and OOP like VC++. :-)
>
>No, Visual Data Manager. That way, when talking about the RUN command:
>
>If you want to start another VDM application, you can use VDM's RUN command to start another VDM to run an instance of VDM to host that new VDM apploication.
>
>And I can confuse everyone.

Check the last word in your VDM paragraph... I think you even managed to confuse the spell checker! ;)

Hugo
"My get up and go must've got up and went"
-Steve Tyler, Aerosmith
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