I was guided to a VFP video in Youtube about Installshield...
Visual FoxPro for 2024: Installing on a New Developer Computer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoZZuw3ggM8
and then I saw this:
Convert Visual FoxPro to C# in 15 Seconds With VFP Code Conversion Workbench - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7sgxd9YbF0
Does this Workbench really work? Could he C# codes be compiled and linked into executable right after conversion? ;)
Does this Workbench really work? Could he C# codes be compiled and linked into executable right after conversion? ;)
Can it convert black box functions where you put something simple in and get something simple back out? Why not. Applications with a database backend and a user interface aren't really made of those, though.
On Sep 24, 2024, at 09:39, Man-wai Chang changmw@gmail.com wrote:
Does this Workbench really work? Could he C# codes be compiled and linked into executable right after conversion? ;)
While it's certainly possible, it's not desirable unless it is a one-shot deal that you will never have to maintain again.
Otherwise, moving to a different language requires learning that language, including its strengths, weaknesses, and idioms. If you are going to convert to C#, and will need to maintain that app, you'd better learn C#. Once you do, you might look at the converted code and decide that it isn't optimal.
-- Ed Leafe
Sounds very much like using Gen A.I. to write programs!! I wonder whether this Workbench might end up like dotNet Extender.... :)
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 12:51 AM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:
While it's certainly possible, it's not desirable unless it is a one-shot deal that you will never have to maintain again.
Otherwise, moving to a different language requires learning that language, including its strengths, weaknesses, and idioms. If you are going to convert to C#, and will need to maintain that app, you'd better learn C#. Once you do, you might look at the converted code and decide that it isn't optimal.
Coincidentally I'll be talking about this idea a bit in my Southwest Fox https://swfox.net/ session in a couple of hours. Hope to see you there!
Eric
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 9:08 AM Man-wai Chang changmw@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds very much like using Gen A.I. to write programs!! I wonder whether this Workbench might end up like dotNet Extender.... :)
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 12:51 AM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:
While it's certainly possible, it's not desirable unless it is a
one-shot deal that you will never have to maintain again.
Otherwise, moving to a different language requires learning that
language, including its strengths, weaknesses, and idioms. If you are going to convert to C#, and will need to maintain that app, you'd better learn C#. Once you do, you might look at the converted code and decide that it isn't optimal.
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