Tristan Leask wrote: > 1) VFP 9 & Sedna > People seem as though they are going to push it past the MS support > date. However there is no guarantee that VFP will continue to work on > OS's after MS start patching things and release new OS's. > Will be developing in it as long as there is development to do. Which will be a long time.
> 2) MS .NET > Keep on the MS ship? Yes I know there are projects that may allow you > to run these programmes on Linux but do they work? And is there another > EULA waiting to happen? > Mono works to an extent, and will get better. .NET is still realistically Windows-based though, for the forseeable future. Things like the whole ADO.NET and Windows Forms areas are not easy to make cross-platform. > 3) Dabo (Python) > Ok, probably the best thing here maybe? Couple of fears though. The > first being that really if you are going to do this you must know how to > program in python (no brainer really) and understand how that works. > What happens if Paul and Ed mysteriously get run over by Steve Balmer? > Will the project continue or will it die? > > Python is going nowhere (I mean it's not going to disappear). Personally I have issues with GUI-based apps based on cross-platform languages like Python and Java, insofar as they look terrible compared to what you can do with native controls, although this situation is always improving. Also, I haven't seen an IDE that can compare in RAD terms to either Visual Studio or VFP. I can develop a whole web-based app in ASP.NET without having to see any HTML. Which suits me fine. I am basically entirely dictated to by what my customers want to see, and at the minute that's VFP and C#. If they start wanting Python on Linux, I'll be doing that too. I have no particular evangelical zeal for any platform. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** 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.
