Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

2007-04-15 Thread Man-wai CHANG
Jim Felton wrote: While I would agree Foxbase was a command compatible clone of Dbase, It was a much superior product. Much faster, more stable and multi platform, which Dbase tried but failed at. Why not Clipper? Object-oriented in DOS days , support ODBC-like drivers called RDD, and lots

Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

2007-04-15 Thread Ted Roche
On 4/15/07, Man-wai CHANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not Clipper? Object-oriented in DOS days , support ODBC-like drivers called RDD, and lots of 3rd party libraries! Well, we could start a religious debate on products long gone, but why? Clipper rocked, too. And the greatest thing about

Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

2007-04-12 Thread Alan Bourke
Derek Kalweit wrote: A few passing references to Foxpro here... http://reddevnews.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=707 Innovated? Na-- sticking with what they've always done-- steal ideas from elsewhere... Well, they legally acquired FoxPro, which in turn was a copy of dBase,

RE: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Felton
: Thursday, April 12, 2007 3:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ Derek Kalweit wrote: A few passing references to Foxpro here... http://reddevnews.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=707 Innovated? Na-- sticking with what they've always done-- steal

Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Kalweit
A few passing references to Foxpro here... http://reddevnews.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=707 From the article: I don't think there's anything along the same lines in the Java world, he says. I think this is an area Microsoft has innovated and gone in a direction that is different