Walter, I tend to agree with you about programming as a career. Some people come here to urge people to move to dotNET. But if "change" is needed, IMHO it goes a lot deeper than that. Programming is increasingly a commodity that will be offshored to the 3rd world like most expensive, non-perishable commodity manufacturing. The first world survivors will be designers, project managers, domain experts and niche players. IMHO people need to decide which of those categories they can occupy if they want to keep programming. IMHO there are lots of VFP niche players and domain experts who are better off adding design and planning to their CV IMHO, ready to supervise development by commodity programmers wherever they may be. In 2005 there are lots of self-satisfied commodity consultants who have followed the herd, but unless they have niche or domain expertise, they will soon find themselves competing with university graduates in Mumbai willing to work 10-hour days for a fraction of the cost.
regards
j.r
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
