>>>VFP9 is a nice little niche market product...
>>>Visual Studio 2005 is a better all around product in nearly every aspect....
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>>Hmm, except some difficulties with WEB and PDAs can you show me WHERE?
>WEB and PDA are 2 big areas...
>VS2005 debugger has modify and continue capability... VFP debugger doesnt.
>How could one implement something like "Windows CardSpace" in VFP?
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>>VFP is good for building LAN/WAN apps on slow old machines...
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>>I didn't saw any problems with fast and newest computers!
>.NET 2.0 and VS2005 work great on fast new computers :)
>For a P2-200 I'd use VFP 6 :)
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>>>and the WEb Connection Add on is pretty good for data centric web sites that do not >>require any recursive code...
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>>Can you point me some "recursive" code that couldn't be made with VFP?
>VFP has a limited depth to recursion performed.
>VS2005 doesnt. You can make "big league"/"state of the art" AI routines in VS2005 ... you really can't in VFP.
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>Wanna have a compiler building contest? I'll use VS2005... you use VFP :)
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>>>other than that its bye bye Foxpro
>>Are you sure that after 2015 there will be .NET also?
>IF Visual Studio product line disappears THEN MS provides a clear migration path for its millions of Visual Studio developers.

Just like it did for the million of VB6 programmers? :-))