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Subject: Re: Yes, there is an ADA language
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On 23.11.16 11:17, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

> There are small business and shops that do NOT need online, web-based, networked programs to do their minor, small, simple business.

That's no longer true in any country that requires businesses
to deliver tax related documents etc. electronically.
Shop owners could, however, print these, and then send them to
a tax advisor who then either scans them or processes them
manually so that he or she can deliver them electronically
in the end.

> There is no reason to force their "apps" connecting to the internet.

Nor, then, is there a lot of reason to write entirely new
applications: rather, it seems, that owners of small shops
have their old business software installed on a VM.


> You really should see what Visual Foxpro could do.

While not much of a statement either, I could mention that I
have an old Foxpro boxed on a shelf, but instead I'll ask:
Could you link to three convincing examples that do

- neither use the database part
- nor use Windows components

and are difficult to do using A# (Ada for .NET)?
I think it is telling that whatever was valuable in that
offering has been made available in VB or .NET, and hence
no longer requires Foxpro, the language.

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