Re: rounding problems

[Justin <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy Anderson wrote:

Sam Mason wrote:

If you mean FoxPro, I think this is another case of MS screwing up.

On May 14, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Justin wrote:

Foxpro normally did not suffer form other MS screw ups.  

That's because MS bought it from a third-party developer.

(And so, of course, they couldn't allow that to stand, and had to develop their own product, Access. What a hunk of junk that was for the first couple of years. :-(

-- Andy

I loved foxpro its the best Xbase language.  MS killed because they did not want to move it to 64 bit.   Which would have made all the limitations that it suffered from due to 32 integer go away. 

What annoys me everyone told me how crappy xbase languages were/are but today most of the popular programming languages are now just getting tools that we Xbases developers have had  forever.

Don't get me started on the Access  Jet Engine blue or red.  They both suck and prone to failure.  I still have a hard  time believing MS uses Jet Engine Blue for Exchange and AD.   I have spent allot time recovering from corrupt databases.  And the way MS shoe horned Exchange into that flawed database design is amazing.