Ed,
There’s no condescension to understand, just I don’t see anything more modern in languages created in the 25 last years; whether the value of last statement is implicitly returned or you declare the value you intend to return is just a matter of preference close to a gadget, I don’t see any additional benefit for the user, or productivity gain, as other techs can bring; eg. Web compared to desktop as it allows deploying an app in 10s of additional work places without installation hassle, and/or dependency on the client OS.
Eg. I work extensively with JavaScript, which I like, however I see nothing more modern than in VFP… automatic coercion is fine as long as you perfectly know the type precedence and how it works behind the scene; and in the end the program is not easier to read than a VFP program, even harder IMO.
My ultimate point is that the language/computer science failed to go very far beyond the progress brought by 3rd generation languages, probably because the large editors refused to join their efforts into a shared standard (like it finally happened in the W3C) and left the initiative to the free initiative of genius computer scientists, or groups of.
A final word to pretend that, within the thought framework exposed above, building a responsive web app with VFP + FoxInCloud is far more modern than with C# or whatever other server-side language, whatever server-side framework like asp.net, and whatever client-side framework like Angular and Bootstrap: more simple, productive, and easier to maintain
Thierry Nivelet http://foxincloud.com/ Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud
Le 4 déc. 2017 à 18:18, Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com a écrit :
On Dec 4, 2017, at 9:30 AM, Thierry Nivelet tnivelet@foxincloud.com wrote:
Many people using fox (or related languages) will be looking to move to a more modern platform.
more modern or more marketed?
I don’t understand the condescension about anything that isn’t VFP. I moved on to more a *modern* platform (Python) over a decade ago because I wanted to have more opportunity than an EOL’d product like VFP offered. Marketing had nothing to do with it. What was important was that this was an open language, and some corporate bigwig could not shut it down and stop development, as Microsoft had done with VFP.
-- Ed Leafe
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