Another comment on this point which I still don’t understand, even if I heard and read it over and over for the last 10 years…
This would be an issue ONLY if VFP applications could no longer evolve and follow the pace of new techs and user demands. And fortunately it’s not the case, thanks to its extensibility provided by the Fox Team. And there’s even no threat that the apps would no longer work because of an OS change. So what’s the point, other than convincing oneself that ‘other languages are more modern’, just like we used to say that some races were superior to others (excessively provocative metaphor)? Languages are very similar to cultures; it’s up to those who live this culture to decide whether to grow with it, or adopt the neighbor’s culture. To surrender or rebel. Keep in mind what happened with Netscape / Mozilla vs Internet Explorer. While IE had 99% market share and a lot of proprietary extensions (remember ‘behaviors‘?) which made IE far more modern than Netscape, the Netscape dev team created Mozilla and fought a tremendous up-hill battle, both technical and psychological, to finally almost kick IE out of the market (to the benefit of Chrome, ironically). Thierry Nivelet http://foxincloud.com/ Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud > Le 4 déc. 2017 à 18:18, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> a écrit : > > shut it down and stop development, as Microsoft had done with VFP. _______________________________________________ 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.
