Hi Martin

>That's wrong. C++ is still alive and kicking! Indeed, VC++ 2005 is awsome. They made incredible things with the compiler and the IDE as well. VC++.NET allows you to write managed and unmanaged code, so this is the bridge between COM and the framework. Indeed, the operating system is still mostly unmanaged code.

Okay

>Don't know what you mean, but remember J# is out there.

Yup, that is what I had meant that like C++, Java also went the sharp way.

>Well, for a computing language nowadays, it could be argued that having 5+ years as C# has now, it is not "new" anymore. And it is quite difficult that such a carefully designed language (having strong roots in C++ and Java) could have pitfalls. I guess you are thinking more about the framework than the language, and in this sense it is true that it has a lot of things to improve (even the 2.0) but what we have today is very good and pretty stable by now.

Okay

>Regarding VFP, I agree in that it is the only supported platform MS has now to develop Win32 applications beside VC++, which very popular but doesn't fit for all audiences. And I think it still has a lot of room in the future.

Cheers.

Thanks for your kind response, I was kinda worried that I will have a couple of flame throwers pointing at me <vbg>. But it was just my ltd. mind sets way of thinking. Thanks.