John, if the 'new features in .NET' amount to endowing .NET with VFP
data handling capabilities
("access methods" in IBM-speak), then I think it's entirely possible
that, if done right, .NET will be an upgrade from VFP. Having Calvin on
the .NET team is one related piece of good news, don't you think?
Maybe I am imagining too much, but we do have at least 9 years to see
how things work out. That's a very long time in this business, as you
know.
I'm optimistic on this one.
Bill
> 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
> >
> >
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