Things I Think I Think... Agents and (Visual) FoxPro

More than a quarter-century ago, a software development tool was quite popular and useful in building applications that could be developed, released, sold, and maintained, all by a single person. I speak, of course, of FoxPro (later Visual FoxPro after it was acquired by Microsoft), but the same could be said equally of Visual Basic (v3 through v6) or PowerBuilder or any of a dozen other "4GL"…