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Do you know foxpro? The zero-friction to manipulate tables (and back them, nobody worry about the OOP impedance mismatch) the 0-necessity of use a ORM, the comp
by mamcx 14y ago
Do you know foxpro? The zero-friction to manipulate tables (and back them, nobody worry about the OOP impedance mismatch) the 0-necessity of use a ORM, the complete tooling to make a full app (with report engine included), the possibility to code store procedures in full foxpro (before become cool the idea of embed full languages inside db engines) and a lot of other things.
The weak link was the fragile database engine, but more important, the kill of the tool by MS.
The mix of a language, db engine, gui toolkit, and other things (similar, but far better than Acces) make it a tool truly made for this area of CRUD.
Plus, you could work in their REPL, and do commands as BROWSE and see the full data in a editable grid to use as you wish. I can't describe in words how functional the whole thing is. Is similar in the power of smalltalk, but instead of have a full reloadable code you have the full data at your hands.
Check http://books.google.com.co/books?id=k8fN2KMF1j4C&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=foxpro+table+commands&source=bl&ots=VwKWK7MDCX&sig=UnHrnear1xAYU75QAhIW-5rnXP8&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=qfUzUZHEO4KQ9QTi6YGYAw&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=foxpro%20table%20commands&f=false http://books.google.com.co/books?id=k8fN2KMF1j4C&pg=PA54... for a idea of the tool.
A modern version of foxpro is something I wish for, but without the coupled GUI toolkit and a better syntax