>Today I was demoing our new application. The customer is a large company who wants to buy sales software for it's distributors. We were explaining the technical architecture of our solution after reviewing the full functionality and some of the IT guys (from a large IT department working with .NET for years) asked me wich development language we used. I asked them what do they tought it was and gave them 4 choices: VB.Net, C#, Java an VFP . For making it interesting, I challenged them with a $20 bet. Both accepted, played with the tool for a couple minutes. One choose C# , the other VB.NET.
>They could't believe that my APP was pure VFP with GDI classes (outlook3bar, a modified version of ownerdrawnmenus, ribbon bar and a some other GDI stuff). I had to show them the code.
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>I got the $40, and the contract :)

Easy money:)
We had an interesting correspondence with one of our customer's IT manager:

Manager: In what language this application was created?
Sales person: It was created in Visual Foxpro.
Manager: (angry tone) I'm not asking what tables were created in, I'm talking about the programming language used to create the application like VB, C++, Java...
Sales Person: AFAIK it was written in Visual Foxpro but I'm not a technical person and I'll forward this to our lead programmer.
Me: It was written in MS VFP + few activex controls + few dlls created using MS VC++. If you have any further questions about the details ...

We didn't hear back from the manager.
Cetin