>I think we AGREE more than either of us realizes!

Probably, but it makes for interesting debate. I just wish we could change that subject line - at this point, I consider OOP the best reason to promote VFP.

>I just want to say, regarding OS/2. . . I was heavily (and I do mean heavily) into OS/2, mainly since release 2. I was on their BBS every day for over a year.

So was I. I was developing FoxPro 2.6 (DOS/Win) applications on OS/2 for quite some time. About the only reason I stopped is that my hard drive was a FAT drive, and I accidentally trashed my extended attributes one day. At that point, my underlying DOS/Windows OS was still running, so I just picked up the pieces and moved on.

Of course, thr release of VFP killed the possibility of developing apps or running them under OS/2 - Microsoft made sure of that.

>After WARP, IBM kept promising compatibility with Windows. They even promoted some tool they were going to deliver that would [they said] let you take the same source and compile it for either OS/2 or Windows **without changes** of any kind! When I stated on that board that that sounded like a pipe-dream (and I offered prior examples of similar pushes to back it up) I was soundly trashed by most.
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>But in the end, that "tool" never did materialize.

One toy along those lines that I bought in those days (and still have) is CA-Realizer. I don't have the specifics here, but all you had to do was provide a different set of DLLs for Windows 3.x vs. OS/2, and the .exe would run on the corresponding platform with no code changes. The code was a superset of BASIC, and the data types that were available were some of the best structures I've seen yet.

I think IBM is making development environments for both platforms now, but I don't know how cross-platform they are. I'd like to see their Smalltalk, myself.

>The IBM salesman of the old days was famous for always telling the customer just how good the NEXT release was going to be. MS is doing the same here.

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I'll have to ask Dad about that - he was in Marketing... ;)

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