> I've seen some of the ugliest yet most functional software done in foxpro. The question was, what, after dBase/FoxPro? In 2000s, there wasn’t a single proper

> I've seen some of the ugliest yet most functional software done in foxpro. The question was, what, after dBase/FoxPro? In 2000s, there wasn’t a single proper stack. I did an internship in 2003 to migrate a company owner’s awesome dBase system into this awful architecture. - VB6 was rejected because it didn’t integrate a DB, - .Net was way-too-hard for the quidams they were. > Budgets blew up, so did team sizes Nowadays people can’t have a custom DB. We tell them to use Facebook’s CRM, because they wouldn’t be able to hire a 120k$ engineer, who are billed at this rate because they are n-times more productive than a grandpa with WinFox. Are we really that productive?