I am interested and will contribute if I can. I have to admit, I am a beginner with this stuff as I have only programmed with fox since around 1988.
I think Python is worth 'thinking' thru some things as long as it will create a database app like fox. If not, of course, it will not work for me as I don't do anything except database applications. It would be great not to worry about whether M$ will discontinue support for my language - or not being tied to an operating system that is purposely insecure and full of bugs to force periodic updating. With open source you have the potential of being in control of your way of making a living. As much as I love Fox, it has a major flaw - being owned by a company run by lawyers and sales people with the programmers (as great as they are) being ignored and told to go out in the parking lot and play ball. It will be interesting to see if M$ can throw away their great company like IBM did back in the 80's. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Leafe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [NF] Python - Thinking Differently On Sep 27, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > For me it's the lack of something like VFP or Visual Studio - a > comprehensive, cross-platform way to create fat-client GUI-based apps, > with easy refactoring, data binding and so on. Which is of course what > Dabo will ultimately provide! And when you consider the fact that two guys can create powerful visual tools like the ones in Dabo (ask some of the folks who were at my session at FoxForward if they'd agree to that assessment) in their spare time, doesn't that say an awful lot about the power of the language? While we're certainly not at the level of polish that the VFP tools are at, we have a completely functional class designer (with either sizers or absolute positioning), code editors with syntax coloring, code folding and Intellisense, database connection designers that work with 4 separate backend SQL databases, a powerful multi-banded report designer with PDF output, a built-in database engine for local file-based data storage, etc... Imagine if we could get just one or two more people interested enough to contribute... -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com [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 ** 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.
