At 08:07 2019-11-26, Koen Piller koen.piller@gmail.com wrote:

OK alright. My first impression on Alan's remark was a negative, meaning negative in the sense of the product, like this product is a hack, it is no good to use. Now meanwhile I have looked around and found on Wiki an explication of 'hack' :* Hacking is finding applications that are not intended by the creator of the resource, especially with regard to computers. Complexity does not play a role here, on the contrary, easy and fast alternative solutions are preferred. The use of a clothes peg to prevent a trouser leg from coming between a bicycle chain is basically a hack. "Normal" inventions and improvements are therefore not hacks, as long as they are used for what they are made for.* This makes me think Alan is not correct and I conclude VFPA is an improvement. Besides, the history of Alan's use: since 1991, I am proud to tell you I was there before 1990, started with dBaseII jumped from dBaseIV to FoxPro for DOS into now VFP9SP2.

Newbie! I started with dBASE II version 2.02 which was apparently the very first version.

If it is modification of a binary, it is a hack. It might be a very good hack because of improvements it makes, but it is still a hack.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko