On Apr 11, 2019, at 10:52 AM, Paul H. Tarver paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
I think I found one of the big reasons Foxpro didn't do well on the survey:
From the Survey: "About three-fourths of professional developers who took our survey are younger than 35." From Wikipedia: "Visual Foxpro was derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984."
Soooo, apparently our favorite language is actually OLDER than most of the respondents to the survey. So we can honestly say we were all programming the Fox before most of these whippersnappers were even a gleam in their momma's eye.
Python was first released in 1991, making it just 7 years younger than FoxPro.
I don't think that the date a language first appeared is the relevant criterion. Instead, I think the most critical thing would be the date of the most *recent* release of the language.
Python 3.7.3 was released 25 March, 2019. Visual FoxPro 9 Service Pack 2 was released on 16 October, 2007.
-- Ed Leafe