I admire your courage. First, you've got that cute picture. That takes guts. Then there is the disclaimer that you value imagination over knowledge - and proceed to demonstrate that in every post, whatever the topic. 'Dot NOT' is just so clever it really should cut off all discussion ( where DO you come up with this stuff )

Though English is obviously not your first language - or is at least one you have never mastered - you tout the value of knowing as few languages as you can get by with on some theory that trying to stuff more knowledge in your obviously limited RAM would push out imaginary 'ideas' ( And I agree as knowledge does tend to do that )

And then you explain to people like Rick Strahl and Rod Paddock why your approach is far superior to theirs and that they would know this if they weren't so busy writing books and articles and speaking at conferences and actually wrote some real world business applications of the kind your far more demanding clients rever you for.

You obviously don't know Rick or Rod, but more to the point you obviously don't even know much ABOUT Rick or Rod. They can speak for themselves in this matter ( though I suspect in your case they won't bother ) But you also don't seem to have the imagination to grab the idea that there may just be a whole lot of folks who are smarter or more hardworking or both than you are who really have taken the same traits which made them gurus in VFP and chosen to expand their skill set and have mastered other technologies.

( You might get something of a reality check if you saw Rod's client list or hourly rate but I think currently your imagination fails you. :-)

Some of us have been promoting knowledge expansion for some time.
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>It sounds more like knowledge dilution or inferiority avoidance. They're have been projects where I have witnessed the "weakest" lobbying to use something new because it was hoped that that kind of change would even the bar. But that is a falisy. The great NOT developers of today - were/are the great java, VB and Server Page developers of yesterday. There so busy plying their trade they have little time for dev-punditing or hop-arounds! We don't have that kind of quality on this board. We do have the "hop-arounds" but they are no substitute for the depth of skill the real "heavies" would have to offer.
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>As you move from here to there, you achieve an thresholdof prowess and fung-sway (sp?) in your solutions. You never allow youself to excel or take the detailed challenges that might result in a sexually appealing (and satisfying) software development style. You reach a threshold. Change hats. Climb to perhaps as high a threshold as you did while wearing the last hat - change hats and do it again.
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>Kind of a technical lag (remember that cultural lag term referring to those locked into their youthful "best" moment of glory - the belt size changes - but it's still the same old pair of off the rack pants.)