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The point I'm trying to make here is that people already have the tools sitting right in front of them to pull off miracles. They simply don't take the time to learn them because they're not "hip" enough because they're not "all the rage" of the latest shiny new object . They fail to realize that (and I actually had a friend make me a hand-drawn piece of artwork with this) "Before you can think outside the box, you must FIRST realize... you're in a box".
Hey Jeff,
I recall back in the 90s one of my first IT gigs was working alongside a gray bearded guy who proclaimed that FoxPro could do anything that shiny new Visual Basic and SQL Server could do, only faster and with fewer lines of code. Do you remember the FoxPro guys?
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I do indeed except the guys I worked with were using it as late as 2007.
The parallel here is that if they decide to do the same with SQL Server, I'm old enough to retire and whore myself out for legacy support at an incredible price. 😀
I just came across some active documentation at work that referenced VFP. I am afraid. (Yes, they were referencing Visual Fox Pro)