Foxpro vs Access

[gymbeef]

A friend asked me if I could do some work for him in Foxpro, but I am totally unfamiliar with that program. For someone familiar with Access\VBA, would it be relatively easy to pickup? Also, what's special about it - why would you pick Foxpro to do an app in versus something else?

Thanks in advance.

 

[vbajock]

Foxpro is getting pretty out of date. It's roots go back to Dbase III and IV. If you have ever worked with those products, the language is pretty similar. Most people try to pick it up now adays because there is a lot of legacy Foxpro apps out there. Otherwise, its future is dim. Microsoft bought the company a few years back in order to strip some key technolgy out of it to improve the Jet database. They currently aren't making any improvements to it as it is destined for the ax. I don't know of anything that makes it special.