2006-09-05 23:20:35 · 0 answers · asked by Tim 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Hai,
Foxpro is a very powerful database management system(dbms) language. foxpro comes on dos as well as windows. and visual foxpro is a very powerful gui with object oriented programming. using visual foxpro u can connect to sql server, sybase or virtually any rdbms. u can also do net programming using visual foxpro. if u are concentrating on small application with 1,00,000 records and not using it on web, then either foxpor for dos 2.6 or foxpro for windows 2.6 will be more than suffecient. maintenance of the code, ease of use, easy deployment are the features of foxpro. if u need any help for foxpro please contact me at lakshmiteja@rediffmail.com or phone me at 9945965075
2006-09-07 17:27:46 · answer #1 · answered by lakshmi r 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Foxpro was one of Microsoft's stars at one time. They told everybody to use Foxpro and millions did. It is based on Xbase and really the last survivor of the Xbase languages. A sort of programing language and database combined designed for small business.
No it is not used much any more. Microsoft dumped on it when Visual basic became it's new star in the 90s. Not sure if there has been a Foxpro release in 5 years or more. In general learning a Microsoft language is a lesson in futility as they will dump support for it. Then all your code and experience in that language is worthless. They did it with Quick C, with QB, with Foxpro, with VB. That doesn't count the dozen complete failures such as the Java joke they pushed for years. The latest fad is .net which they will also drop in a few years.
Don't learn just one language. Try several and find what suites you best. PHP is the hotest web based language out there. Java is a great but complex language to learn. Still get your feet wet with it. Learn C++. You'll eventually need it. If you use anything but Windoze then Gambas is a great place to pick up where VB left off. Does everything VB and QB did and more. Python and Ruby are fast growing languages. If you are into pain Perl is another. Huge code base and libs to choose from but the dependancy hell makes C++ dependancies seem trivial. Java script is a must. Know at least a smattering of it.
Avoid Microsoft languages. You are too late to get into .net. By the time you get good at it they'll yank the rug out from under you. Yes I'm bitter about having them yank so many languages out from under me for no reason. I made money writing C, Foxpro, VB apps. Got completely out of the coding for M$ platforms in frustration with the lack of stable compilors. Tired of completely learning a new language that often doesn't even do everything the last one did. No backwards compatability.
2006-09-06 01:47:46 · answer #2 · answered by draciron 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Foxpro Language
2016-11-02 23:38:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't learn BASIC. That kind of programming has been dead and buried for over a decade. These days we use Functional and Object Oriented languages. C is a great functional language which has been the basis for almost every programming language since, and C++ is a multi-paradigmic language that can allow you to write procedural, function, or object-oriented programs, and will be much more useful to you as a programmer later. I couldn't tell you anything about foxpro.
2016-03-13 06:49:44 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it's 8 years later and .NET is still in heavy duty use. Visual Foxpro was an amazing language and perhaps the only language that would have been perfect for learning to program.
These days it's best to know html, jquery, mssql/mysql, java, C# and objective-C.
2014-05-04 19:09:48 · answer #5 · answered by Gary S. Kraft 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FoxPro is really old man. Try getting use to visual basic. I found that it was simple to write programs in.
2006-09-06 00:06:09 · answer #6 · answered by none 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋