The code generated was really contrived and difficult to modify..
Similar to the code in the VFP Wizards which I have always avoided like the plague apart from borrowing snippets of code from them now and again.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 06 September 2017 10:38 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy
Reading up on it it was sort of ahead of its time insofar as it was a simple interface that then generated BASIC code.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, at 08:35 AM, Dave Crozier wrote:
It was completely crap Andy .... tried it once and then binned it..... but then again it was only a free marketing aid.
I stuck with the good old trilogy that you could do virtually anything with:
Wordstar Supercalc (or Visicalc) DBASE
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of AndyHC Sent: 05 September 2017 16:11 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy
On 05-Sep-17 12:01 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
there was also a product called "The Last One" which said it would be the only programming product you would ever need.
Microsoft are still doing that.
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I often wondered what happened to 'The Last One' - I never met anyone who'd actually used it, possibly because the advertising was directed at PHBs.
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