Alternative for Visual FoxPro on OS X?

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Alternative for Visual FoxPro on OS X?

Does anyone knows any alternative for Visual FoxPro on OS X which can run simple commands, because I do not have any server and I do not need to work on whole programs?

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1, iPhone

Posted on Oct 3, 2012 9:37 AM

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Bobo95 Author

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Oct 3, 2012 12:13 PM in response to etresoft

I installed both softwares, but neither of them relates to what I was looking for. I do not really need to create whole databases. I want an anternative for FOX because I am a beginner at highschool in SQL and we are using simple commands like

" ?date() " or " ?sqrt(3) " and so on. These softs ask me for a server account and I do not have any. Thank you anyway!

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macmavin

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Oct 12, 2012 1:53 AM in response to Bobo95

Check out Lianja http://www.lianja.com

It supports Visual Foxpro syntax and runs on OSX as well as Windows and Linux.

It also has a interactive console allowing you to simply enter Visual Foxpro commands without requiring you to write a program.

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Answer 3

Oct 19, 2012 11:54 AM in response to Bobo95

Check out OpenXava:

http://www.openxava.org

It's open source, runs in OS X (also in Windows and Linux) and allows you to create database applications rapidly, just like FoxPro, but using a different approach.

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etresoft

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Oct 3, 2012 7:16 PM in response to Bobo95

Well, that's really not SQL. Is this for a class or something? No one has used Fox Pro much for 20-odd years.

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etresoft

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Oct 3, 2012 9:57 AM in response to Bobo95

FileMaker Pro and Bento are the closest to Visual Fox Pro.

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Bobo95 Author

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Oct 4, 2012 2:30 AM in response to Bobo95

But when you usually work at school in ComputerScience, what programming languages do you use?

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etresoft

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Oct 4, 2012 5:57 AM in response to Bobo95

It depends on the context, what I'm doing, and who I'm doing it with. I'm lucky to work at a place where Perl is popular. For my own stuff, I use Objective-C.

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