On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, at 02:26 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:
>> Why would you want to be limited to another desktop form based UI is my
>> only question.
>
> That's the thing. If you were starting 'Visual FoxPro' today you would
> have to end up something designed to operate with various types of
> presentation layer, and any type of database through a data layer.
>
So, perhaps a console ("command line") interface for quick-and-easy
scripting, an ability to use a variety of desktop widget packages,
like wxWidgets, GTK, etc., the ability to plug into popular web
servers like Apache and nginx, and ports to new up-and-coming hardware
platforms like IOS and Android and Raspberry Pi? Compatibility with
common OS platforms of Linux, OSX and Windows, of course,...
Python sounds like a good choice. Or JavaScript, Perl, Erlang, Ruby,
Haskell, or PHP.
It's hard to imagine there's a market niche left untapped.
Though I still think the form- and report-designer UI tied into the
project generation of VFP was pretty compelling. And the re-entrant
app generation of our 3rd-party frameworks like FoxExpress for
round-tripping is a high bar that's rarely reached.
--
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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