I'm curious as to why you think "VFP continues to live a healthy life". A healthy life to me would mean that an article discussing various methods of development would include a discussion of how to prceed with VFP. A healthy life would mean I could send my resume to a recruiter and the response would be "Great, with all this VFP experience we will have no problem placing you". A healthy life would mean that I would have done more then just software maintenance for the last 5 years.

And all these things are 100% opposite from the reality I see. I just went to Dice and looked up Foxpro in Los Angeles. 5 hits. Actually 4 since 1 job is posted twice. Well, technically 3 since another is for a QA job. Of the 3 remaining listings we have:
1) Sql Server DBA with knowledge of Foxpro. The position is to help convert from VFP to C#
2) Reports developer using SQL Server / Java. Knowing VFP would be nice
3) The only straight Foxpro listing is for a Foxpro 2.6 Windows position doing maintenance.

In Los Angeles, the sale of MGM went thru yesterday and all the corporate work is being transferred to Sony. There were 2 major corps using Foxpro in LA, MGM being one. So we are down to 1 major in the entire city that has a Foxpro team.


>The problem the community has with you and others like you is that you made a decision and now that VFP continues to live a healthy life with many great new features, you decide you have to make it your personal mission to kill it in order to justify your decision. If you've gone elsewhere, then stay there and don't snipe at your old language.
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>>Foxpro is dead. Get over it and move on.
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>>>They haven't just been offering .NET training, the way they are approaching it and selling it has been perceived as backstabbing by a segment of the VFP community. It's the same for another of the VFP "gurus" - this guy still offers training, but when I sent my client to it, I found out that what he does is tell people that he doesn't program in VFP anymore and he badmouths VFP. I'm tired of these people tearing down an great language that has been damned good to them. If they want to program in another language, fine, but don't disparage VFP (since it doesn't deserve it) and don't go around, like McNeish does at VFP conferences, and say VFP is dead.
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>>>>Have no idea what you're talking about. If it's something in another forum/thread, then maybe that's the place to address it.
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>>>>>I think the trouble was stirred up by Kevin and Marcus.
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