Re: FoxPro clone of Paradox?

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Post #147,787 by deSitter 3/23/04 10:52:25 AM Reply	Re: FoxPro clone of Paradox? Both Fox and Paradox were DOS databases that competed with dBASE. 1) Visual FoxPro did not show up until Paradox was a memory (in practice) 2) FoxPro for Windows was just a GUI terminal for executing dBASE code. 3) Paradox for Windows 4.5 was already out in 1993 and had very advanced features for a desktop database that nothing could touch. I know I was there. -drl
Post #147,789 by Arkadiy 3/23/04 10:56:17 AM Reply	I worked with DOS FoxPro Unlike Paradox, its language was slightly extended but very recognizable dBase. And the interplay between language and UI was uite extensive. A form was saved and could be edited as a language statement, or you could use property editors, drag-and-drop and code snippets. All that in text mode. Very nifty. -- Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them. --Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Post #147,791 by deSitter 3/23/04 11:01:49 AM Reply	Re: I worked with DOS FoxPro "All that in text mode..very nifty" Sure, for dBASE development it was nifty. Paradox was fully object-based and PAL was at least as OOP as was VB sometime later. Paradox was a real Windows event-driven programming/database tool and should have - WOULD have - changed the world if not for Microsoft's horrible behavior. Insofar as it set the mold for all the "Visual" tools that showed up later, it DID change the world - and Borland gets no credit. -drl

That reminds me... - (CRConrad) - (21) - March 19, 2004, 05:36:41 PM EST

Re: That reminds me... - (deSitter) - (20) - March 19, 2004, 09:20:22 PM EST

And many of the ideas for Borland - (ChrisR) - March 19, 2004, 09:43:33 PM EST

Drag-and-drop a few components, set a few properties, and... - (CRConrad) - (18) - March 21, 2004, 04:48:24 PM EST

Wrong on Paradox - (boxley) - (16) - March 21, 2004, 05:48:55 PM EST

Paradox -for Windows- != Paradox. PfW published ~199...4? -NT - (CRConrad) - (9) - March 21, 2004, 05:54:02 PM EST

Janvier 1993 - (altmann) - March 21, 2004, 06:00:40 PM EST

History of Visual Basic - (boxley) - (7) - March 21, 2004, 06:51:33 PM EST

A "history" devoid of dates. So: When was VB v. 1 released? - (CRConrad) - (5) - March 21, 2004, 07:15:30 PM EST

VB 1 was a dos product was it not? I thought VB for windows - (boxley) - (4) - March 21, 2004, 07:22:06 PM EST

Thats Quick Basic - VB 1.x was around 1993 - (deSitter) - (3) - March 21, 2004, 08:46:50 PM EST

That's all well and good... But it wasn't a RAD IDE. - (CRConrad) - (2) - March 22, 2004, 05:00:45 AM EST

Re: That's all well and good... But it wasn't a RAD IDE. - (deSitter) - March 22, 2004, 09:13:52 PM EST

If you define RAD as usable - (boxley) - March 22, 2004, 09:33:13 PM EST

More history. - (a6l6e6x) - March 21, 2004, 08:48:28 PM EST

FoxPro clone of Paradox? - (Arkadiy) - (5) - March 23, 2004, 10:46:04 AM EST

Re: FoxPro clone of Paradox? - (deSitter) - (2) - March 23, 2004, 10:52:25 AM EST

I worked with DOS FoxPro - (Arkadiy) - (1) - March 23, 2004, 10:56:17 AM EST

Re: I worked with DOS FoxPro - (deSitter) - March 23, 2004, 11:01:49 AM EST

spent a lot of time with Foxpro 2.0 - (boxley) - (1) - March 23, 2004, 11:20:32 AM EST

Flakey indeed - (Arkadiy) - March 23, 2004, 03:39:11 PM EST

DevGuide for OpenWindows 2 - (pwhysall) - March 22, 2004, 07:27:11 AM EST

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