That *is* a well-written article. I was wondering who wrote such a comprehensive overview of VFP, and when I reached the byline I could only nod my head. Well done.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:11 PM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:

On Jun 10, 2020, at 12:33, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:

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The Linux Journal article is still live, too:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6869

Wow! What a well-written article! :)

I especially like the use of “e-mail” – so quaint!

-- Ed Leafe

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On Jun 11, 2020, at 03:02, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:

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My site hasn’t run on Zope, though, for a dozen years or so. :)

Zope and Plone were a thing once.

Back around 2001 I was looking to re-do my website, and searched around for recommendations. The name ‘Zope’ kept popping up, and since it was in my price range (free!), I downloaded it and started playing around. It came with several simple things for making different pages, and seemed to work OK, but if you wanted to do anything more than basic static HTML, you had to write “scripts” in this language called “Python”. I had never used Python, but after skimming some examples I tried writing a Python script. It worked on the first try.

Beginners luck, right? So I tried something a little more complex, and that worked, too! After a few of these I figured that either I had just gotten really smart, or Python fit my brain really well. It’s now almost two decades since, and while my website isn’t in Zope anymore, it’s still in Python.

-- Ed Leafe