>And even when we get past the novice stage, IT completely reinvents itself as far as state of the art tools, and we start over again.
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>That's why you don't see too many grey hair programmers any more.

No, that really has nothing to do with it at all.

It is age discrimination, pure and simple.
Business sees a programmer willing to take less than half what a 'seasoned' programmer will take and they go for it every time.

This truly is false economy, but when this quarter's bottom line is all that matters then this is what business does. The misfires and project restarts and part-functional delivered projects (no "institutional memory" so long known no-nos repeated) can easily be hidden but there's no hiding a quarterly budget report.

cheers


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>>>George,
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>>>Thanks for the advice. I am at best a novice when it comes to foxpro (or any other programing language) and am learning from my many, many mistakes. I thought I had done a pretty good job of setting up the databases but the more I do with this program the more I see how wrong I was (the referenced table in particular).
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>>>Thanks again for your advice,
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>>Russell,
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>>At one point or another all of us were "novices".