RE: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

[Scott Ramey]

> 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 of 3rd party libraries!
The morons at Nantucket blew it when they came out with version 5 that
wasn't backwards compatible -- and was buggy.  That's "why not Clipper" and
why I switched to FoxPro and have users still running code dating back to
1984.
Scott



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Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

[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 dBASE, Clipper, Arago, FoxBase, Clipper,
dbXL, Alpha 5?

Choice.

-- 
Ted Roche
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http://www.tedroche.com


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Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

[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 of 3rd party libraries!

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RE: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

[Jim Felton]

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.

Jim

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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,
so in fact it was Fox Software that 'stole' from elsewhere surely?


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Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

[Alan Bourke]

Derek Kalweit wrote:
>> A few passing references to Foxpro here...
>>
>> 
>> 
> 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, 
so in fact it was Fox Software that 'stole' from elsewhere surely?


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Re: [NF] -- Looking to LINQ

[Derek Kalweit]

> A few passing references to Foxpro here...
>
> 

>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 than a lot of the other
programming languages have gone."


Innovated? Na-- sticking with what they've always done-- steal ideas
from elsewhere...




Also from the article:
"There will be some shops that take the view that they don't want the
developers formulating SQL queries in their application, they'd rather
move that stuff out of the application so they can have people who
specialize in that kind of activity write the queries,"


Anyone work in such a shop? I thought developers were normally the
ones that knew SQL(some better than others, of course)... DBA's
usually being there to administer or point out database-specific
optimizations in the query(the good DBAs) Maybe I've just never
worked in a "big enough" company...



-- 
Derek


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