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Thanks for the reply. The product looks interesting.
I've just realised my naivity, I suppose that comes from not being a dbase, clipper, foxpro, vp-info, etc histrical user. It appears the dBase based languages (considered clones) come under the xBase name, like the xBase language is like a standard or something ;)
Looking at wikipeadia theres a list of current xBase products. Very interesting stuff!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBase
Regards
Richard
Hi Richard.
I was so disheartened as I was coming to the realisation we may actually be seeing a death of a language. People could argue the langauge is outdated, but the truth is it isn't really. It's just a language and it can evolve sensibly like any other. There are many other successful dynamic languages like VFP about.
Another product worth looking at is Xbase++ from Alaska Software. Although its roots are in Clipper, they've been working at adding VFP language constructs to Xbase++ over the past couple of years, and are also working on tools to import forms, reports, class libraries, etc. They're philosophy is that while a product may die--dBase, Clipper, FoxPro--a language doesn't have to.
Doug