>>>The ironic thing is how everyone used to pan VFP cause it didn't compile to "native" code but to op code which ran in a runtime. Now, we have the CLR which is quite similar to the VFP runtime.
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>>Another disadvantage of Visual FoxPro - which it shares with .NET, at least for now - is that it is basically for Windows. Although not so much has been talked about this aspect, perhaps.
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>Actually there is an implementation of .Net for Linux called Mono. Although there are still working on 1.1 and .Net 2.0 will be out soon.
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>BOb
Well, I had heard of it; but I thought it was still in Beta. If it works, well, that would address my major concern in this case.
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