David Boatright wrote:

>> And your contribution has been... ?

>

> To Foxpro? I continue to use it every day, unlike you. You seem to

> maintain this list just so you can shit all over Foxpro and Microsoft

> just to promote your new toy.

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I absolutely disagree. While he might promote Dabo, I certainly don't

think Ed shits on VFP. Nor did Ted (who doesn't use Fox anymore).

These guys have moved onto more modern softwares and are embracing

change. I absolutely love VFP, but I prefer MySQL for the backend...but

that doesn't mean I speak disparagingly about the Fox. My apps have

never (afaik) had corruption because I think I've coded them quite well;

however, the daytime app I work on (not mine, but a legacy app from LONG

ago that uses direct table edits via table buffering and NO views),

suffers from lots of memo file corruption. Why? I think the way Fox

accesses data across the LAN (needing a constant connection) and the

ways people did things way back when seem to cause some issues today.

Hence, that kind of legacy stuff gives the Fox a bad rap, which may be

construed as "shitting all over Foxpro" but I think it's just one of

those solutions that didn't account for the ways things change in

design, and hence, it's just not as good a "mousetrap" as today's

database backends can be. That's not a slam....it's just a (disputable)

fact, imo.