I think everyone should be aware that Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C#) is now on Typescript. This speaks volumes. In my opinion, the future is in the browser. Projects like asm.js, webassembly and in particular WebGL with ,three.js or babylon.js, are going to blindside desktop apps. I am quite literate in C#, still use VFP daily but the future "platform" is JS. I just wish some people would team up to make a dBase-esque language that could transpile to JS. In the context of the client (browser, electron, Cordova) it makes sense if you treat data as cursors, on the server (node.js) it makes sense as a database backend. But what JS gives you with asynchronous calls, it takes away with the added code complexity due to callbacks. However, with JS Promises things have started to change. Regardless, as a business rules specific language JS is not as readable as VFP. So I think that a transpiler would be awesome. One can only hope.
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Darren foxdev@ozemail.com.au wrote:
I know of a bank that spent upwards of 30M trying to port a VFP app, that had been developed over 15+ years with a group of developers, to .NET - all got dumped. 30M+ wasted. Back to using VFP for now. Not suggesting it can't be done but in this case an extreme amount of business logic in the app and the task is mammoth.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Cully Sent: Friday, 6 October 2017 6:44 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] learn more about what you hate so much.
I worked for a company that produced Real Estate software for the commercial side of things. We had a national client that said they were leaving our product to develop a new .NET solution with another company.
They returned after 1.5 years and after spending $2.1M. They started asking us for enhancements again. Ouch.
I'm figure throwing away a working system *may* work, but most likely it's an expensive lesson to someone.
On 10/05/2017 01:25 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
Kevin,
At our user group we were told by a Microsoft representative (well known
to
the Fox community) that Dell was throwing away all their internal applications **sight unseen** to rewrite them in the beta version of .NET 1.0.
I wonder how that turned out?
Bill Anderson
For 20 years now, Microsoft has been telling me that I've been
developing
with an inferior tool and that .NET is better. Is it ready now?<<
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Kevin Cully <
kcully@cullytechnologies.com>
wrote:
For 20 years now, Microsoft has been telling me that I've been
developing
with an inferior tool and that .NET is better. Is it ready now?
I think I'll stick with Foxpro and now Xojo for developing business solutions.
I don't hate .NET. I'm just going to continue to ignore it.
On 10/04/2017 11:01 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
This is the 2017 .NET Conference Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecu4g5JYB8
It has morphed from the .NET you all hated so much 15 years ago. They show working in Chrome and not Bing.
the beginning goes over NuGet if you are unfamiliar with posting
packages
to it.
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