But the question is if MS will do that??
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From: profoxtech-bounces at leafe .DO.T com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of William Arnold
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 2:21 PM
To: profoxtech at leafe .DO.T com
Subject: Re: Fox technical chat on ProFox
> I seem to remember that the Fox group was telling us that "fitting"
> VFP into the .NET framework would have severely crippled it. Anyone
> else have more information about this?
I think it's pretty straight-up, Chet. For MS to fit VFP into the .NET
framework would involve a significant improvement to .NET that MS doesn't
want to make.
While I don't spend time comparing languages to each other, my gut feeling
is that all modern day 'high level' languages offer OO design and similar
features, albeit with different syntax. For the most part, but I don't think
converting from one heavy-hitter language to another is that big a deal,
except when it comes to the database engine, which MS obviously doesn't want
to endow .NET with.
However, the good news is that competition is bearing down on MS, notably in
the form of Linux, and that may well "inspire" MS to become more
competitive. If/when that happens, MS has VFP in it's bag of tricks that it
can (finally) pull out the stops on.
Bill
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