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09/05/2002 11:25:30
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Conferences & events
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00649984
Message ID:
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Larry,

At the most recent conference in Kansas City the question was asked, "Who's here for the first time?" As I have been led to understand something like 55% raised their hands.

So, I'd say yes, VFP will continue to attract new developers.



>I think there is a larger issue:
>
>Is Visual FoxPro going to be a legacy application development environment... or will it attract new developers?
>
>For better or worse, an autoincrement field is just one of those basic things that is included in any other database development environment.
>
>Many of the brilliant programming practices that we take for granted were developed in order to solve generic problems that weren't addressed by xBase/FoxPro/VFP.
>
>Are experienced developers still using Foundation READS?
>
>
>>>We will have two options for handling PK's in the future; typical of VFP, eh?
>>
>>Typicaly of any rich programming language. The easy way, and the hard way :-)
Best,


DD

A man is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep for that which he cannot lose.
Everything I don't understand must be easy!
The difficulty of any task is measured by the capacity of the agent performing the work.
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