>It has been my sad experience that the vast majority of VFP "programmers" lack even the most rudimentary of competent programming skills. Perhaps that is the reason so many are fighting so hard against learning new tools.

I've been a witness of that. A VB programmer that took a job as a VFP programmer. He did what he had to do as a consultant by reading a book when he got stuck. Hmm quite a professional ;-)

LOL

And you think it was better in the VB world?

That language evolved from

10 print "This is a freakin easy language to learn"
20 go to 10

So I guess that many of those "top notch" developers made the move to VB.

Come on. It's not the development language that makes a bad programmer. Either you have programming skills or you don't. After that it's up to that unskilled developer to make messes all around.