>>>>Not sure where it originated from, but it's been used since I've worked with Fox in the early 80's to mean a small section of code or a 'code snippet.' I think the term itself (outside of programming) means: a small piece of anything including a piece of something that has been snipped off or cut out.
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>>>The term came into FoxPro with the Power Tools in 2.0. It was used to describe the bits of code we could write for what we would now call events.
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>>>Tamar
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>>And it led to an entire religious war over snippetless vs. snippetized code. ;-)
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>I'd completely forgotten that debate. Didn't the topic of "How to de-snippetize your screens" make it as an FPA article?
Oh, probably. Probably written by Ed Leafe. I think his Desnip/Resnip utilities are still available for download on his site. ;-)
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