Why “FoxPro” is being discussed
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I don't recall that I ever did this with a FoxPro app. I used to make part of my money porting or cloning bespoke small business apps to OpenOffice Basic or OpenOffice with its…
by cestith · Sep 23, 2026
Pretty sure all the upvotes came from folks nostalgic about FoxPro development days. I don't think anyone is actually upvoting the quality of the seemingly fully AI written webs…
by mdmower · Sep 23, 2026
Trust was a thing back then. No, it wasn't. The reason I even raised this bug to begin with was not because of some nefarious $BAD_COUNTRY hacker getting yer dataz from far away…
by mikestew · Sep 23, 2026
With a permissions system that’s meant to enforce security? I hope not. I’m not a FoxPro user and so maybe these are single-user/single-host installs, where the user can on…
by shermantanktop · Sep 23, 2026
At least FoxPro stores code in binary files, but I’ve seen scripts to convert them back and forth to a text representation that can be checked in.
by legulere · Sep 23, 2026
There's been a 64 bit version of FoxPro for years and years [1]. No, not the official VFP as released by Microsoft, but a version made by a well known VFP developer. Besides tha…
by wila · Sep 23, 2026
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FoxPro is a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and database management system (DBMS), and it is also an object-oriented programming language, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. The final published release of FoxPro was 2.6. Development continued under the Visual FoxPro label, which in turn was discontinued in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia