>>>>After seeing another thread on VFP is MS Step-child, I must plead with UT members to "Stop the insanity." All we can do is the best we can do and not worry ourselves silly with VFP has been "dissed again threads." Excellence overcomes many obstacles and, for the most part, a quality product helps sell itself. Stop worrying that Mikey got a bigger piece of the candy bar.
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>>>>Bury the horse already!
>>>Mark, again a nice translation for my feelings. We are selling our products not FP itself and I wouldn't kick away FP at least until I can build a better app with another language. I've beated already done and working VB and Delphi apps with VFP, and gratefull to Fox software for starting it all up.
>>>Cetin
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>>Exactly what type of Delphi app did you beat? Why would would you rewrite apps which were already working? Exactly what sort of performance gains did you provide which made this a worthwhile effort?
>Joseph,
>It was a kind of accounting, stock follow etc app working in several offices some connected via LAN and some offline. It was not me that wrote Delphi and VB versions. They were there and working. Clients were not satisfied and I offered a VFP version and wrote despite their resistence. They sure paid me after they saw what could be done. I here do not mean Delphi, VB or VFP is better. No discussion about it. I mean for me the best language is the one I could build an app best with.
>For performance gain, they were waiting for about a minute per customer during reporting now they wait under one minute to report all customers. And I again do not discuss this as VFP is definitely better (it's a very long discussion and ve have MVP s for that). I just want to say whatever the app is in any language it's the programmer itself making it an artwork. Here to my chance I was better.
>It worthed me because I earned writing it.
>Cetin

I am still curious as to the size of the datasets with which you were working as well as the number of tables. Also, do you know if the Delphi apps were hitting Paradox or DBASE tables? I am curious as we have a Delphi app developed in-house with less than desirable performance with Paradox tables...

Jack