Well it's a Friday morning and the guys in the office are chatting about

life after VFP. I was wondering what languages people are considering

to EXPAND to as part of their dev work?

So far I have seen the following crop up...

1) VFP 9 & Sedna

People seem as though they are going to push it past the MS support

date. However there is no guarantee that VFP will continue to work on

OS's after MS start patching things and release new OS's.

2) MS .NET

Keep on the MS ship? Yes I know there are projects that may allow you

to run these programmes on Linux but do they work? And is there another

EULA waiting to happen?

3) Dabo (Python)

Ok, probably the best thing here maybe? Couple of fears though. The

first being that really if you are going to do this you must know how to

program in python (no brainer really) and understand how that works.

What happens if Paul and Ed mysteriously get run over by Steve Balmer?

Will the project continue or will it die?

4) REALBasic

Ok, I don't know much about this, but it seems to keep popping up over

and over again on these boards. Is this another VFP waiting to happen?

Are they likely to get brought up by the big boys, consumed and then not

supported in order to move people across to their .Nets?

What other serious contenders are people looking at to move to as their

main language of choice?

Cheers for now...

Tristan Leask

Software Developer

Marine Software Ltd

trgl@marinesoftware.co.uk

www.marinesoftware.co.uk

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