|top|: Visual Foxpro

In 2015, a young consultant came to upgrade the warehouse to a cloud ERP. He looked at the FoxPro screens—gray backgrounds, blue text, command windows—and laughed. “This is ancient,” he said. “It’s not even real programming.”

She built forms with the Screen Builder. She wrote little programs— .prg files—that looped through stock lists and flagged reorders. When her uncle asked for a “report of blue cotton shirts, size L, sold last month,” she wrote: visual foxpro