>Stacks like foxpro and dbase allowed people like my uncle in his basement to start a massive business, or maintain the list of shirts he sent to the dry cleane

>Stacks like foxpro and dbase allowed people like my uncle in his basement to start a massive business, or maintain the list of shirts he sent to the dry cleaners. Ha. After my webmaster internship at the local newspaper ended, I took a gig doing data entry for a guy operating out of his basement on Visual FoxPro apps for things like HVAC equipment selection and other calculation software for area manufacturers. He'd talk about the dozens of developers and millions of dollars that it took to build the in-house solution, and how everyone preferred his application. He must have had a champion in the company, because his software was freely downloadable. He was fond of saying "FoxPro is very robust," and absolutely resisted learning anything else. For various reasons, I ended up going elsewhere... It was 2003, FoxPro was deader than dead. To me it was, anyway. I just visited his website, which somehow is still around (and still designed for 800x600 monitors), and he's still using and promoting Visual FoxPro as of 2020. Hey, go with what works for you, I guess.