Hi Francois,

I assume you are aware of Dabo (www.dabodev.com), being developed by two VFP expats.

And, as mentioned above in the discussion, Ironpython: have your .NET and beat it too.

Hank

>>I've seen conversations on a number of Blogs concerning the advantages of 'static' (C, C+, C#) and 'dynamic' (Smalltalk, Python, Ruby...) languages.
>>Where does VFP fall in this discussion?
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>Hi Michael,
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>I'm a long-time foxpro user (back to 1987) that has moved his skillset to perl (this language is a joke) python (this thing is a miracle).
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>So my answers mostly relate to python, which is typically behing a lost of discussion on "static vs dynamic" in academic circles.
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>YES, technically VFP falls into the "dynamic" category along with quite a few other languages.
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>NO, academically, it will never belong to this list of languages referred as "dynamic" by academic circles (from smalltalk to python) because it is both highly specialised and proprietary.
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>In short, if you practice vfp ... you will feel right at home in python (ruby is a different species) which is both a "dynamic" and "typed" language and may find smalltalk attractive (but possibly not usefull). Of course python is generic (no cursor no Rep-writer no data-aware components, not even a unique UI).
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>But from a cultural PoV, it makes some sense to move from VFP to python. At least as much as moving from VFP to C (even made sharp).
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>Now for a very personal standpoint...
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>SET RANT ON
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>Come on Guys. I do not want to go the C# route for business apps. We're in 2004! This looks like a bad joke. Dynamic languages are so much more productive.
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>SET RANT OFF
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>Franck