>>>I figure VFP was for a long time the main reason I had Windows on my machines. Still is.
>>>
>>>Once, during a job interview, I was asked about three strong and three week points in VFP. Don't remember exactly which one I picked for strong, but for weak I picked database vulnerability... and don't remember what were the other two. They should have been: Microsoft and Windows.
>>>
>>>Microsoft has bought Fox to spite Borland, then to milk it for technology, then eventually killed it for the meat - the ingenious team which did these miracles, they need these guys to fix up their mastodon project. Now they're still trying to lure all the fox's friends to buy into that project.
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>>>I may eventually buy into that, if I have to, with the same pleasure that I had when I was doing Cobol. Before it comes to that, I plan to stay with Fox as long as I can.
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>>
>>Hi Dragan.
>>I think you have to move now.
>>
>>When an opportunity come to move away from VFP, please do it. It's not anything against VFP.
>>
>>I have a VFPer friend in Fort Worth, TX. Been out of work for 2 years. He sells insurance now. Don't let this happen to you.
>
>Let me see my options:
>
>- I could go back to teaching math, or teaching IT stuff.
>- I may go back to Cobol (and write some code generators for it in VFP :)
>- I may learn a few more things about SQL server and become a DBA
>- I may do more of the PHP/MySQL and find work there
>- I may want to learn Python or even Java
>
>So not now, and surely not dot net.
>
>I simply don't like being coerced and being played. Microsoft still owes me a few late nights from 1986, when I had the honor of finding a disastrous bug in their Cobol for CP/M (indexes which would return a false negative on seek for some records, and would skip some other records on sequential access, as soon as the record count reached 32767), which they kept mum about, and passed the "do not talk" policy to their then Yugoslav distributor, whom we had to press for a few days until they confessed that there was a bug and gave us an alternate indexing package, made by a third party.
>
>The only thing that made me accept Microsoft is that they kept Fox alive. Which is still the case, to an extent.


I bet you would be a terrific math teacher. The pay might not be so great....