I was recently asked to write a guest editorial for the VFUG Newsletter,
which I did. I lamented the fact that I was 99% out of VFP now and living
in a Linux world, described the tools I use now, whined a lot, etc..
I had a section where I said I couldn't move our database front end
(currently written in Access) to VFP because of various issues, one of
which is quoted below.
Some guy emails taking issue with one of my comments:
"Great idea having a guest editorial, but does anyone read it before it
goes
out ?
I haven't got a problem that Matt has moved to Linux, but was somewhat
disappointed that he includes the following in his editorial piece.
(quote)
"And lastly, I can't in good conscience recommend that we go that
direction (VFP)
with the specter of MS pulling the plug on VFP as a product.
It just wouldn't look too good for me to push VFP as a development
environment (as much as I'd like to), spend months or years making the
data
front end better (and add all the features my users want), only to have MS
yank VFP off the market." (endquote)
Yuk, a lot of good work is being done to promote VFP, and this ancient
comment in your editorial is disappointing."
Not that I really give a rats ass, but is there something wrong with my
statement - especially since it's just my own opinion?
Well... we all know what they say about opinions <bg>.
I think in the context of the audience you were writing the article
for the statement(s) could be expected to generate some adverse
comments.
I think considering the history of Microsoft and for that matter all
of the development tools we've been sold on the last few years,
you could make a similar analogy. Nothing we write an application
in TODAY may be relevant TOMORROW.
There's no guarantee that if we write a front-end in .Net de jour,
Java de jour or Python de jour that we won't have to re-write
major portions due to changes and modifications in the languages.
Based upon that I think your statement(s) was a little short sighted.
The fact is: (A) it hasn't been yanked yet, (B) they haven't announced
any upcoming yanking, (C) at least VFP has been pretty consistent
on backward and forward compatibility. I don't know that we can
say that about most other development environments.
Finally in all the years we've heard the FoxPro is dead refrain, we've
seen VB go away and all of Borland's tools disappear, along with
many others.
Jim Eddins
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