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1. tombert · 1790112609 · focus · HN ↗

   I might literally be the only person on earth that can honestly say I have been paid to write FoxPro, Erlang, F#, and ColdFusion.

   My first software job was at a Tae Kwan Do studio who ran their own billing department, and the entire billing half was some weird custom thing written with FoxPro. Not Visual FoxPro, I've never actually used that, but the old school DOS stuff.

   I absolutely hated every time I had to touch it and I had hoped that it would die in a fire. I hope Visual FoxPro sucks less.

   1. jhbadger · 1790131307 · focus · HN ↗

      I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s/early 1990s and I worked part time in the university library working on databases and interfaces first in dBase III then Foxbase (the predecessor to Foxpro; basically an extended dBase III clone) then DOS FoxPro. I rather liked them, but this was long before I had ever seen SQL or anything like that. The weird thing was that my boss (besides being the library's IT guy) was a taekwondo instructor! What is it about FoxPro and that?

      1. tombert · 1790132546 · focus · HN ↗

         I'm wondering if it's the same guy. Without doxxing yourself too much, you didn't happen to be in the central Florida area did you?

         1. jhbadger · 1790170840 · focus · HN ↗

            Funny if it were, but I was in Wisconsin.

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