On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Geoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there ANYTHING you like or have ever liked about VFP? Would it help if > VFP saved its tables in XML format? -------------------------------------------------------------
Sure back in the 80s and the 90s FoxBase, FoxPro and Visual FoxPro were great. In that time period the competition was dBase and Quicksilver on the xBase space. Paradox and Delphi had their large footprint as well. We also replaced GWBasic with VB3,4,5 and 6. I still liked VFP over VB6!!! and Access. Then a new century came in and old ways evolved into newer replacements. VFP to anything is possible. You can use a variety of back ends and could since the early 90s. Or at least I did. XML is a great container when used properly. Much like all other appliances you might have in your kitchen. Need to open a paint can you could use a knife, a pair of scissors, a can opener, even a screw driver. I have never said that all data must be stored in XML. I did say that to dismiss XML because it is not binary is wrong. XML is great when used properly. Some of the people who have replied to this message seem to be so focused on a single item that they dismiss everything else when someone mentions another. It is like my wife and pain killers, and married to me she needs a lot of them. If I go to the store and buy some other pill outside of Advil Clear jells it is like the sun just eclipsed. Try to tell her that it is the same ibuprofen content in another jell pill and NOOOOOOO. So once again, data is flexible. Try be likewise. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer First Horizon Bank Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ 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 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.
