[asterisk-users] SugarCRM, NO!, Foxpro, SI?

Paul ast2005 at 9ux.com
Mon Apr 30 09:59:27 MST 2007


Stephen Bosch wrote:

>Paul wrote:
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>>>>Third -  I have enough exposure to  Visual FoxPro to quickly rule it out
>>>>as  a choice for anything new. The fact that somebody is proposing to
>>>>use it might give you the idea that they don't know what they are
>>>>talking about at all. BTW - my exposure to it did include things like
>>>>access from linux apps using ODBC so I know enough to hate the product.
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>>It still makes me wonder why the programmer chooses Visual Foxpro.
>>Sounds like he also rejects many other language and database options.
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>What it *sounds* like is that's all he knows and he's too terrified (or
>unmotivated) to learn anything new.
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>I have met people who are still programming in OS/360 (using an x86
>emulation environment). Yes, you read that right. These people sell
>*software* to *customers*.
>
>There comes a time in the life of any technology when you have to take
>it behind the barn...
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Do you mean a trip to the woodshed where I apply the "board of
education" to some technologies I started out with? I don't have any
"tough love" for things like FORTRAN. I'll just disinherit those
children. :)



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