Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, at 01:49 PM, Dave Crozier wrote: > 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. > > > > > <bg> > > > > 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. > > [excessive quoting removed by server]