<<Are people working on "C-squared" or natural language compilers as we speak? Probably.>>
I nearly did a PHD in this 20 years ago so you would think they would have it by now. I always figured that APL was a step in this direction just that the person they modelled was insane. Conversion to another platform is a major investment in time and productivity and it all a question about long term trends in your market. With SQLAnywhere we may be seeing the start of the end for the vfp database and with LINQ its advantage in data applications but that doesn't mean that for the next 10 years VFP will still not be the single best tool to deliver a complete application, simply and quickly with minimal overhead on a small platform. The open source model has some great strengths for systems you can deploy as part of the project (and a nice chargeable part of the bill the customer can understand) and .NET gives the corporate world a level of consistency it needs to move forwards with the risk it is willing to take. In twenty years there may be a consolidation of platform resources (all databases will have identical interface/procedural languages and all OS will support a common library set) but a wider selection of OS and development tools that allows better tailoring to needs. What you need to do is decide how you are going to position yourself now for the changes you will face in 10 years for the following 10! -- Michael Hawksworth Visual Fox Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.foxpro.co.uk _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
