I sit next to one of the better DBAs I've ever worked with. And he kind of laughed when he saw what Walter said. Getting him to laugh at anything is a rather large accomplishment.Guffawing at others is not the sign of a confident adult expert IME.
There are far more competent programmers who've left the VFP world and never looked back, then competent VFP programmers who decided to stay.Even if it were true, technical excellence is not a popularity contest.
It seems you are unable to justify your beliefs at all.
"... 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
