Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!timk
From: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBase IV Bug(s)?
Summary: dBase/IV vs Foxbase/+ 2.1
Message-ID: <1996@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 04:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Organization: A Box in the Basement, Kitchener, ON
Lines: 49

In article <54@dbase.UUCP> awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>In article <Apr.17.10.39.48.1989.4291@surfers.rutgers.edu>, emuleomo@surfers.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes:
>> I will advise you in all sincerity to SWITCH to Foxbase+ v2.1.
>> It will do ANYTHING you need to do approx. 3 times faster than dBase IV
>> and it contains no known bugs.!!!! Futhermore, you may not even need to 
>> change your code if you have'nt been using the 'new' Ashton Tate commands.
>> 
>> In case you think all this talk about Foxbase+ is just talk, try reading
>> the April (or is it March) issue of Database Forum where George Goley Jr
>> --Emuleomo O.O.
>> *** Premature use of dBase IV is the root of all evil. ***
>
>dBASE IV is a tremendous improvement over the dBASE III PLUS language, and
>Foxbase is merely a clone of III+.  

And Superman is a clone of Pee-Wee herman.. :-) Seriously though - F-base 
is a clone only in  that it can run dbase/III + code unmodified. The 
speed it does it with and the programming extensions that it has and the 
fact that IT WORKED  makes it much more than "just" a clone in my 
opinion. (Kinda like calling a Porsche a clone of an Escort....)
Meantime, where was A-T with THEIR upgrades, not to mention just dealing with 
the myriad of bugs in the product you were already shipping?)


> There are dozens of new commands and
>functions, a sophisticated report writer, and so forth.  

Yep - A-T saw what was going on with F/+ and said "Gee - maybe we'd 
better put these things in there too!"

>There are reasons
>for the 'new' Ashton Tate commands and there are a lot of useful things
>that Foxbase+ can't do.  (Of course, paper and pencil can be used to 
>_simulate_ dBASE IV, but, speaking realistically...)
>

>
>/alastair/


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I'm not associated with F/+ or A-T, I've just had occasion to be 
working with both F/+ 2.1 and dbase III Plus on occasion in my work....