> > Re "VFP is dead", what we need from MS is a declaration that VFP will > continue to work for the life of Windows. Call this "support" or > something else. >
Well, it's support. Which as we know is ending. So if some update to Windows 7 or 8 down the road breaks something fundamental we better round up some people who know how to hack DLLs. Remember the Fox 2.6 for Windows days when it stopped working once CPUs got to a certain speed and the .ESL file had to be hacked? ---------------------- If MS breaks it, than MS fixes it. The same commitment we have with our customers. I wouldn't argue that 2.6 should still work, but nowadays a 32 bit VFP works just fine for myriad applications, it produces competitive products and there's no reason why it can't continue to do so for the life of Windows. Sure, one day we'll be talking with smart machines that can learn, but until then we have code and compilers, and VFP is as good as anything I've seen. This is particularly true for those of us with libraries of tested code to draw from when creating new applications/features. We've finally gotten to the promised land of RAD. And our limitations are far more with imagination than language. Heck, I'm looking forward to a Watson interface, a jump into the next paradigm, right from a Windows 32 bit application. Nothing I'm thinking of needs 64 bit (which I presume will become a bone of contention), but if 64 bit is necessary for some functionality there will be some sort of programmatic interface available to whatever it is. This is not a matter of 32-bit VFP losing viability, as arguably happened with 16-bit DOS, but of MS standing behind the implicit commitment it made to us when it acquired Fox Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
