Tod means Fox

Foxfolk, Milind Lele’s letter is posted at Microsoft.com. What I like about this letter is how he framed the decision to stop further development of VFP. Instead of Soma Somasegar’s comment about it being “hard to hear that you have to go and learn something else” (see my last entry), he focuses on addressing some of the concerns that VFP programmers are having about the announcement.

Here’s a taste:

Visual FoxPro core/engine is very stable. It has been so for a very long time. In fact, many have written to me asking, why this decision given such stability/maturity? One significant aspect to consider is this: Most of the feature enhancement requests we have received in recent years is XBase components. Thus making these components open source enables the community to drive improvements and enhancements and yet leverage a stable engine.