But - Charlie - even U admit 2 not working in VFP w/the list of tech U mentioned!
Am curious - how long U been on here?
I go a GOOD Ways back here on the forum - joining circa 2008. But - I didn't stumble upon this great resource until Many years into VFP ! Yeah - like me - Steve has been here a while - even LONGER Than me!!!
We met some years ago on Long Island - when he was visiting his mom on LI. He talks here Of other Tech & helps out plenty. In my day job I've been forced outta VFP & now starting 2 work in VB - although now doing like 2.5 yrs of MS SQL. Systems I support(1 is now gone - replaced by a new Sys) R in VFP w/SQL as back end. So - even I have had 2 move on!!!
Although - those that know me well here - know that I am highly versed in 3D CG & 3D Printing. Many know of my 4.5 foot long Dragon creation - which has been exhibited in Numerous venues - I now also have my 9 foot long Dragon! Although - besides the purely artistic type 3D projects - I have product design prototypes I am trying to bring to market.
Anyway - that's me in a nutshell. And - yeah - many of us are pretty tight in this VFP community & Steve is truly a long respect member. I suggest U don't take his replies in the wrong way.
He's also fun to hang out with over a couple or a 1/2 dozen pints O Beer!!!
:-) -K-
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On Oct 13, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Charlie-gm ccbibleman@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/12/2017 9:20 PM, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: Charlie - R U saying that YOU have no knowledge of VFP??
:-)
Judge for yourself of course. But I do not propagate incorrect claims about how VFP "copies down the whole table across the network whenever you open it" and things like that.
And I certainly do not remember Stephen (Bad Steve?) to have ever been a "big VFP guy". As I recall he generally put down VFP and praised the latest Microsoft "best practice" of the moment (which sometimes turned out to be a "bad practice").
Anyway, my irritation in this particular instance was his "contribution" to the topic was basically trying to "scare off" VFP'ers from the project: "doomed to fail..." Which, of course, is utter nonsense. Making sure you have someone that has a deep knowledge of the source language means the real operational requirements can be identified: why the system was designed the way it was. Lack of clear requirements is, by far, the primary reason projects fail. Also, does he think a VFP'er cannot learn C#? ROFL. The best way to learn a new language is to actually work in it: and working in it while stepping through a previous code set that you know well makes things much easier. Heck, I'd have looked into it except I have no interest in Microsoft development tools any more. I'll spend my time with Javascript, Python, some R, maybe Java.
But whatever. I don't really care that he hangs around the list (like I have any say-so about that anyway). Maybe others remember the things he's done on the list differently than I do. For me, I saw just another case of trying to back-hand insult VFP'ers - maybe it wasn't intentional <shrug>. But since he's obviously not interested in VFP any more, why post on topics specifically pertaining to VFP? My little quip in response was just trying to point that out.
-Charlie
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