However, I learn first FoxPro. Is more closer to my own idea (in fact, is what I'm after!) because is practical and is proven... yet the xbase family of languages fade in obscurity for weird reasons (http://wiki.c2.com/?ExBase talk about some and MS killing both Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro because .NET, making the the death of the most popular and practical) without any modern undertaking.
This make a huge community of developers that, I suspect, left the market (without citation because is my experience in my local market) because more "normal" languages are not as appealing as database-oriented languages. In fact, despite I love python/delphi as the most productive languages I have used, none is closer to Fox in the area of database-based apps. Is just another league.
http://www.try-alf.org/blog/2013-10-21-relations-as-first-cl...
Before I found this, most talk was at the more theoretical level and about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Manifesto
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However, I learn first FoxPro. Is more closer to my own idea (in fact, is what I'm after!) because is practical and is proven... yet the xbase family of languages fade in obscurity for weird reasons (http://wiki.c2.com/?ExBase talk about some and MS killing both Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro because .NET, making the the death of the most popular and practical) without any modern undertaking.
This make a huge community of developers that, I suspect, left the market (without citation because is my experience in my local market) because more "normal" languages are not as appealing as database-oriented languages. In fact, despite I love python/delphi as the most productive languages I have used, none is closer to Fox in the area of database-based apps. Is just another league.