Oh you whiners... I'm still actively coding in VFP. And currently I have to maintain an app which was originally coded in 1998, then continuously updated up to VFP9, but lots of code fragments are from earlier versions. The original programmer died last year because of a heartattack, thus no clean handover was possible. That's why I work somewhat as a firefighter now; enhancing it to new requirements as well as refactoring old parts. That software controls multi-million-Euro Metallurgy Furnaces, with over 60 installations scattered over whole Europe. Multi-lingual with several codepages is really funstuff without Unicode :)
wOOdy -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ProFox <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von MB Software Solutions, LLC Gesendet: Montag, 13. Januar 2020 16:20 An: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> Betreff: Nostalgia -- updating an app written 15+ years ago Offered one of my clients 20 free dev hours in 2020 hoping to spur more business moving their suite of apps I've provided since 2003 forward. Modifying one app now that I can a comment dated 2004-12-28. Gives a nice warm feeling to be working on this app again. It was redesigned some time ago to use MySQL as the backend instead of DBFs and uses the 3-tier (UI/BizObj/DataObj) design, so I'm confident it'll be easy to work on. (Knock on wood!) I'm sure some of you have gone back into your archives and felt good about some apps you've designed long ago. Just wanted to share the moment/feeling. ;-) [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[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.
