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Hey, a FoxPro hacker! I still do some Visual FoxPro. The red-headed stepchild of the Microsoft stable, much maligned by people who know nothing about it, still supported, refuses to die despite Microsoft's best efforts.
Commented Mar 22, 2013 on Why Ruby? at Coding Horror
Why Ruby?
I've been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic, and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Visual Basic. I have seen the future of programming, my friends, and it is terrible...
@Ryan Newman
> IMHO - nowadays it's almost rather rare to see web developers using
> anything but Linux / OSx. So many more choices in Linux world - Windows
> makes u feel handicapped.
Yeah, unless you want to run any software that businesses actually use in the real world (ERP, payroll, CAD, etc., etc.) , or games.
Commented Jul 24, 2012 on Betting the Company on Windows 8 at Coding Horror
Betting the Company on Windows 8
I'd argue that the last truly revolutionary version of Windows was Windows 95. In the subsequent 17 years, we've seen a stream of mostly minor and often inconsequential design changes in Windows – at its core, you've got the same old stuff: a start menu, a desktop with icons, taskbar at the bot...
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