>This is a quote from Steve McGrath's blog he shared with me yesterday:
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>Taken from my blog:
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>"The markets are not the same. Most applications in Visual FoxPro are for business and for non-profit organizations. VB main focus was not on database development. The impact is very different here. Also, Linux is becoming more widely available than 5 year ago(start of .NET) and some of those business may go that way so not to get burned. Microsoft is forgetting the secondary revenues that FoxPro gives them by keeping them in the Windows world. In a few years, Linux will be a real competitor to Windows when more ordinary people start to install it on their desktop."
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>Absolute hogwash! He already said he has no knowledge of VB, but it doesn't stop him from talking about it. He works for a non-profit, so he thinks he is able to qualify VFP as a development tool for non-profits too. I have friends in the non-profit industry. Most use Access.

Doesn't stop Walter, et.al. either. Most mom and pop's use VFP stuff:
1. Because most VFP programmer's work cheap
2. Because it doesn't matter how much spaghetti code is written
3. Because anybody can do it.

If your code is put to rigorous coding standards and review, most VFP code wouldn't hold up, with the exception of a number of good 3rd party tools. I have had to fix a few VFP code nightmares created by some BIG consulting firms who specialize in VFP.

VFP lets you make poor programming choices and then doesn't penalize you for it.