VFP

Hey guys, I'm writing this post from a Visual Foxpro Developer's conference. Do I win?

Hey guys, I'm writing this post while drinking coffee. Do I win?

Wow, people are wasting their time attending conferences for dying languages? Leave now and spend that time migrating to something that doesn't suck and isn't facing certain obsoletion.

Visual Foxpro is "facing a certain obsoletion"? More like a rotting cadaver of a Microsoft product.

Thank you Microsoft for all those crappy programs you wrote :
- Windows developpers are suffering
- Mac and Linux developpers are enjoying their tools :D

>>3
I've never written a line of VFP code in my life. I'm here with the guy who wrote our sales and stock control system in FoxPro, on some sort of learning exercise. I think he wants me to take over the development of it somehow.

>>4
According to some of the people here, Microsoft bought it in its prime and then let it wither. There certainly is a scent of death and a large feeling of denial in the air here.

>>5
I think he wants me to take over the development of it somehow.
Uh-oh. You're fucked.

>>6

>>6

>>5
I think he wants me to take over the development of it somehow.
RUN FOR THE HILLS

Srsly. You do not want to be stuck with that corpse for the next years.

>>9
Hey, you can quote by doing > QUOTE HERE. The fact that you keep using | to quote makes you easily recognizable.

>>10
Oh, fuck me, disregard that, I suck cocks. There was a fag doing that in some other thread, though.

Note: Do not post on /prog/ without glasses.

OP here. It was actually a pretty good conference. Many of the sessions were about quite generic concepts and only used VFP in reference code.

Though, I still don't really want to start investing loads of time in learning to use the damn thing.

Hey guys, I'm writing this post from a car cdr. Do I win?

ITT, obsolete technologies

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22scalable+enterprise+solutions

>>15
lol @@ unterminated quotes

Deal with references manually because of poor language design; live with sub-par subs (no pun intended) that don't have named parameters (Perl functions are just a dirty hack); learn 5 different ways of doing the same thing (just one won't suffice, everybody does it in a different way and you will have to read others' code), plus 5 shorthand syntaxis for each, and be ready to master the complex, arbitrary rules to evaluate when you're combining half a dozen operators and half of the syntax is missing; and finally, get used to eval because that's the way l33t Perl hackers work.

>>17
Listen to this man. Listen to this man. Listen to this man. Listen to this man.

Fucking signed.

Apparently, a lot of VB.NET's features are ripped directly from Foxpro.

>>19
Apparently, both languages fucking suck.

>>20
Apparently, the Sussman was not there when they did that.

technologies that have been   creating new solutions   on for 6   years IT IS   actually rather good   as it allows   me to CAPITALIZE   LARGE CHUNKS WITHOUT.

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