Hi Walter

I cannot disagree with anything you say. As usual, you always make perfect sense. You can see real messes developed in many different technologies.

Best

-=Gary

>Gary,
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>>This may well be true but my reality is that all I see everyday on the joblists are .NET positions. The "millions of businesses" don't seem to be hiring VFP developers at the moment ;)
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>One of the problems really is to find well trained VFP developers. The sad reality is that a lot of folks out there are really not the experienced VFP developers the market is looking for. I've been lucky with my team as I don't really care where they live, but a colleage of mine who requires on site programming and good knowledge of the dutch language is looking for VFP talent for quite a few years now. Up to now he tried quite a few people, but could not find an suitable candidate.
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>One thing we did two years ago is take some bright guy, send him off to steven black for training and he turned out to be a real asset to the company. Of course it will take time to become a master VFP programmer, but he's better than a lot of folks programming foxpro for a decade or more.
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>As someone said before, programming is about solving problems. The issue of which programming language to use is relative. Going to .NET won't make good programmers out of bad ones.
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>For me the market is about providing client solutions. The client does not care whether it is programmed in language X or Y, It likes to see well working software. It is your choice whether you use language X or Y, but you'd better be well informed about the advantages and disadvantages before doing so, it might save a lot of dissapointments. Don't be on the bleeding edge, just for the sake of beeing of the bleeding edge.... It has to provide some benefit..
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>Walter,