I remember everyone laughing at the vb guys when MS told them they would have to throw all their code away and adopt the new, new strategerie of .net.
John Harvey -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:35 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: An interview I gave for MarketWatch On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >From what I remember at the time, we the users were asked if VFP should go > in the CLR, and for reasons I don't understand the users mainly said no. So > we lost VFP ------------------------------------------- Vague relocation but VFP7 was just about ready for release so we chose to get it NOW!!!!!! Instead of waiting for probably a year for VS7 came out 2002 I think. Remember all the VB coders that called it Visual Fred because it was so different to what they had. I can only guess that all VFP coders would have been just as nasty and arrogant. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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/041e01cb29a5$e1aa7b20$a4ff71...@[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.
