On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:38:44 -0800, Timothy Swenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Exactly right. The Rushmore engine is a Super Duper dbase III... exactly what dBaseIV should have been if Ashton-Tate hadn't mess up! :-)At 05:55 PM 2/19/2003 +0100, you wrote:Hi Tim,I gather from TT's reply that I was not getting what you had expressed. I was thinking more of a macro in C terms than the 'eval' that you were expressing.
Thank you for your reply, but my example has mislead you somewhat,I'm afraid.
Macro substitution is something completely different from 'IF DEF's'
or '#INCLUDE'( if I do understand your explanation correctly).
Since I'm replying to this thread, Phoebus is right in that FoxPro is not based on anything by M$. Fox's first product was a code accelerator for dBase II. I believe FoxPro is based on the dBase II/III language (which I used to program in many moons ago).
Too bad they were bought off by M$. Although their products still live somewhere in the core of M$ DB technologies, one can't help but wonder how different things would be today if it hadn't (ie no Slammer virus ;-)
Phoebus
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