Well I suppose it's like any generated code in that respect - the FoxPro 2.6 screen builder output, or boilerplate C# produced by creating a new ASP.NET MVC project ...
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, at 01:49 PM, Dave Crozier wrote: > The code generated was really contrived and difficult to modify.. > > Similar to the code in the VFP Wizards which I have always avoided like > the plague apart from borrowing snippets of code from them now and again. > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke > Sent: 06 September 2017 10:38 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy > > > Reading up on it it was sort of ahead of its time insofar as it was a > simple interface that then generated BASIC code. > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, at 08:35 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > > It was completely crap Andy .... tried it once and then binned it..... > > but then again it was only a free marketing aid. > > > > I stuck with the good old trilogy that you could do virtually anything > > with: > > > > Wordstar > > Supercalc (or Visicalc) > > DBASE > > > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of AndyHC > > Sent: 05 September 2017 16:11 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy > > > > On 05-Sep-17 12:01 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > >> there was also a product called > > >> "The Last One" which said it would be the only programming product > > >> you would ever need. > > > Microsoft are still doing that. > > > > > <bg> > > > > I often wondered what happened to 'The Last One' - I never met anyone > > who'd actually used it, possibly because the advertising was directed > > at PHBs. > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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/1504704397.3022208.1097064920.42d6f...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** 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.
