When are you guys gonna quit dreaming? The fox has been castrated, it
ill never be reinstated. It will be gutted to support new features in
.Net. Sedna is a quasi-peace offering from Redmond. There will be no
rewrite, no future featues, no nothing other than minor tweaks to keep
the revenue stream rolling in. Calvin is no longer on the fox team. He
is on the .net team. End of story.
Bill Arnold wrote:
>Well, at least the fog in Redmond is starting to clear. Now that key
>language people are coming around on the usefulness of FoxPro's data
>handling, it's now just a matter of time before their new-found
>appreciation has them implementing one feature after the other.
>
>What's important for us is that we don't get stuck having to re-write
>our applications again. It's just too easy to imagine MS doing something
>like building a better FoxPro than FoxPro but with a different command
>language/syntax/paradigm that would force us to re-write to use it. The
>word irony comes to mind, given that we chose the right door in the
>first place. But we're going to need more than just a comforting word:
>we're going to need a truly functional translator.
>
>Fortunately, MS has time to do this right. Let's hope that's what
>happens!
>
>
>Bill
>
>
©2005 John Baird |
