There might be some age discrimination involved. But not as much as you would think. It doesn't sound like you attend many seminars if VFP is not involved. I attend VFP, but also .Net when I get the chance. The average age of the crowd at a .Net seminar is significantly less then the age at a VFP seminar.

Older folks just don't want to spend the time required to learn an almost completely new set of tools.

Personally, I've been married to someone in China for 1 1/2 years. She is going tomorrow for her visa interview, and should be here by the end of the week. When I tell her I spend a lot of time studying, she assures me she will support me. But I worry because I know of at least one divorced programmer where late studying was a major cause of his divorce.



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