Hello everybody.

On UT Home Page under the article "The History of Programming Languages" (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html), is a link to a graph with the History of programming languages.

After not finding VFP or FoxPro in this document, i backtracked their recource and found the source: http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/search.htm

In this list only FoxPro V1.0 and V2.5 are included. So i wrote to the composer of the original list Bill Kinnersley and the O'Reilly team. I just wanted to let you all know about this.

Here is the e-mail i send them (once i get a reply i'll let you know):

Dear Mr. Kinnersley.

After I found The O’Reilly Graph (http://www.oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf) based
on your data (http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/search.htm) about the history of
programming languages, I could not find Visual FoxPro (or any previous versions thereof) on
their chart. Backtracking their data resources, I found your ‘Language List” in which I found
FoxPro V1.0 and V2.5 from Fox Software.

Being a Visual FoxPro programmer, I was ‘disappointed’ not finding ‘my’ language in this extensive
list. You will find all information about the history in any aspect on Visual FoxPro at the following
site: http://www.foxprohistory.org/. This site is not up-to-date in regards to the latest news form
VFP, which VFP 9 Beta (codename Europa).

Another site where you will find ample information about Visual FoxPro is:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/. This Microsoft site (they bought the ‘Fox’ in the
early 90’s) contains, amongst other data, the latest information about the development of
VFP.

I, and I am sure most if not all of the Visual FoxPro Community, would very much appreciate if
you update your database and graph to include the complete history of Microsoft’s Visual FoxPro!

I will send a copy of this e-mail to O’Reilly, so that they can update their graph and will post
this at www.levelextreme.com for the Visual FoxPro Community.

I would like to thank you in advance for your attention in this matter.


Sincerely,

Gunnar Philipp
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