Re: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread Paul H. Tarver
True. But in my defense, my tongue was fully in my cheek when I was referring to those young whipper snappers who need to get off my lawn! Lol Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 11, 2019, at 10:32 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > >> On Apr 11, 2019, at 10:52 AM, Paul H. Tarver wrote: >> >> I think I found on

Re: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Apr 11, 2019, at 10:52 AM, Paul H. Tarver wrote: > > I think I found one of the big reasons Foxpro didn't do well on the survey: > > From the Survey: "About three-fourths of professional developers who > took our survey are younger than 35." > From Wikipedia: "Visual Foxpro was de

RE: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread Gene Wirchenko
At 08:52 2019-04-11, "Paul H. Tarver" wrote: I think I found one of the big reasons Foxpro didn't do well on the survey: From the Survey: "About three-fourths of professional developers who took our survey are younger than 35." Sample bias. We see this in rec.arts.sf-written whe

[NF] Substandard Software

2019-04-11 Thread Gene Wirchenko
Dear [unless you write software like that I am about to discuss] List Members: Look! I have a shiny new E-mail address. The apartment complex where I live decided to change things -- new management -- and the local phone company shortly will no longer be able to deliver service here.

RE: [NF] What happens on the Wednesday after the 2nd Tuesday?

2019-04-11 Thread Fletcher Johnson
Ted, I finally found a way to stop the updates from crashing my computer (which was a big deal because I run a number of VMs and when windows rebooted, it was as if I had a power failure not good. Anyway, I followed the process at this page: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-windows-

[NF] What happens on the Wednesday after the 2nd Tuesday?

2019-04-11 Thread Ted Roche
Windows machines crash, or fail to start: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsofts-april-2019-updates-are-causing-windows-to-freeze/ Just the usual. Avoid updates for a while, lock up your machines if you can. Happy Patch Tuesday Hangover! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates,

RE: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread Paul H. Tarver
I think I found one of the big reasons Foxpro didn't do well on the survey: From the Survey: "About three-fourths of professional developers who took our survey are younger than 35." From Wikipedia: "Visual Foxpro was derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was deve

RE: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread Paul H. Tarver
I resemble too busy Paul H. Tarver -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jan Bucek Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 3:11 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results Dne 10.4.2019 v 22:05 Ed Leafe

Re: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread Alan Bourke
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, at 9:06 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > I felt that I had to put [NF] in the subject line, because (spoiler > alert!) there is no mention of Fox in these results. Nor any xbase > language. Nor Xojo. Nor Servoy. Nor any of the other technologies > trying to lure Fox developers out of t

Re: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread Jan Bucek
Dne 10.4.2019 v 22:05 Ed Leafe napsal(a): I felt that I had to put [NF] in the subject line, because (spoiler alert!) there is no mention of Fox in these results. Nor any xbase language. Nor Xojo. Nor Servoy. Nor any of the other technologies trying to lure Fox developers out of their shells.

Re: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread Thierry Nivelet
Time to get back to SO, it's just the opposite. Thierry N Le 11/04/2019 à 09:06, juer...@wondzinski.de a écrit : Maybe those at StackOverflow are just those who need to copy'n'paste some codefragments without understanding ___ Post Messages to: ProF

RE: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results

2019-04-11 Thread juergen
Even that I know of StackOverflow as a website, I haven't visited them since a decade or so. Does this make me a bad programmer? I even didn't know of that survey. Maybe that's the reason of those results? Maybe those at StackOverflow are just those who need to copy'n'paste some codefragments wi