>Other than being the work of Microsoft, any other reason why Visual Basic is actually more popular than Visual FoxPro? I mean I don't really understand!
>I program in VFP most of the time, in VB rarely, but I do know (and teach!) the language.
VB is based on BASIC, a language that was widely in use during the 70s on mainframes, minis, and NON-PC micros.
Then BASIC was given away free with almost every PC computer purchased up until the mid-late 80s. IF memory serves, GW and MS PC based basic got their feet wet to help out those poor souls unable to bootleg the IBM basic PC-ROMS for their clones. <g>
In a way you could think of VB rising to the top of the BASIC heap as VFP rose to the top of the DBASE/XBASE heap. Of course the odds are still stacked against VFP pardon the pun.
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