>>>I've been using Foxpro since it was Foxbase+ and believe it can do 99% of what I ask or want it to do. It just has a name "Foxpro", that has come to symbolize (to some at least)a product that is not robust or professional enough for project development. I believe its time for MS to rename Visual Foxpro and give it a name that more accurately reflects what it is today.
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>>For a new name, I suggest "phawcks". Try to pronounce it out loud, and see if you like it.
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>We're both born in non-English languages, but shouldn't it be "phawck
xs"?
It seems to me that no English word has this specific combination of consonants letters.
Examples, to make the crazy spelling at least plausible:
ph: philister, phantom
aw: law, fawn
("au" would also do, as in "haul".)
cks: locks, hacks
BTW, I got this idea from a certain Mr. Fox. I think it was his brother, who gave classes, and wrote his name on the blackboard as "Dr. Phaucks" - or was it Phawcks? - as a joke. Of course, the new students thought they had entered the wrong classroom.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
