>Just thought I'd pass this URL along:
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http://www.calvinhsia.com/default.asp?Page=Phone>Calvin's solution was in VFP and he won (and it looks like he did it in the shortest amount of time). The demo page is setup as a VFP mtdll called from ASP. This is a great example why, IMHO, VFP has an important place on the web...
Am I missing something??? I looked on the blog, and I don't see where Calvin's solution was annointed as the winning solution. And...I see a bunch of other solutions written in C#. In looking at this link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/the1/archive/0001/01/01/105884.aspxI did not get a lot of warm and fuzzy feelings re: Calvin's solution.
Lets be clear here...Calvin is about as smart as they come. Give him a piece of crap language to use - and he no doubt could work some magic. That said, if Calvin did win this thing, my guess is that it is more of a function of HIM - not the tool. A programming languge is a programming language. The specific problem in this case is not really a data-problem per se - insofar as db-applications are concerned. This same problem could have been solved by a number of languages. The real issue, IMO, is the quality of the programmer.
And by the way, I'll be the first one to admit that I would not stand a chance in hell in solving this problem.
The "this should show how great VFP is" comments are bit misguided..
