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To: FreedomPoster
Did you work with the old FoxPro database back in the day?

That is changing. Did you know that all of Bank of America's mortgage systems are basically run in Foxpro?

I believe that Foxpro is the greatest programming language ever written. And like the Air Forces B-52, it will be utilized by our kids and grand-kids for the next 50 years.

Just because somebody says a computer language is dead, doesn't make it so.

118 posted on 01/24/2013 8:31:36 PM PST by FoxPro
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To: FoxPro
He motions me over to a check stand, grabs a 4 pack of AA batteries, tears it open, pulls out one battery, hands it to me and says "Merry Christmas."

I should have added this to my post (#147) and it supplements what others have mentioned. What the manager did is not at all atypical here in the right-thinking part of America. And, in terms of other places, Huntsville is actually one of the more quasi-liberal parts of Dixie. That's relatively speaking of course since the metrics are entirely different down here.

If you want to get almost smothered with friendliness and hospitality, venture southward a bit more to Cullman! Don't get me wrong, Huntsville's great but places like Cullman are "out of sight" as songwriter Roger Sovine so aptly put it to music:


Well I've got to get back to my old hometown of Cullman
It's a little bitty town in North Alabam
The women down there are kind of wild and wooly
They don't mind my dancin' and my jammin'
And that's what I like about my hometown Cullman
Lord it's up tight out of sight hmm Cullman Alabam

Well Cullman ain't no square town no sir
All them gals just tryin' to get a little closer
And all those darlin' moms are open minded
There ain't nothin' that they ever mind tryin'
That's what I like about my hometown Cullman
Lord it's up tight out of sight hmm Cullman Alabam

Cullman ain't a very big town city hall is over the dairy queen
And the mayor he pumps gas at the Esso station
But that don't seem to hurt his reputation
And that's what I like about my hometown Cullman
Lord it's up tight out of sight hmm Cullman Alabam

Cullman is a real in town baby
The girls down there don't know about the word maybe
When they see a swinger like me they go crazy
There ain't nothin' that they ever do that is half way
And that's what I like about my hometown Cullman
Lord it's up tight out of sight hmm Cullman Alabam






148 posted on 01/24/2013 10:26:04 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: FoxPro

That is changing. Did you know that all of Bank of America’s mortgage systems are basically run in Foxpro?

I believe that Foxpro is the greatest programming language ever written. And like the Air Forces B-52, it will be utilized by our kids and grand-kids for the next 50 years.

Just because somebody says a computer language is dead, doesn’t make it so.


If you’re under 50, there’s COBOL code still running today that is older than you are.


192 posted on 01/25/2013 1:42:54 PM PST by Peet (Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei. (Monroe in "Grimm"))
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