>If the market for VFP developers exists in your area and you can make a good profit from it, then more power to you. Honest question though... how long do you think that market will exist? I know the situation with highly paid COBOL programmers making a mint because of legacy code, but I don't think you can compare the quantity of COBOL apps to the quantity of VFP apps.

Funny thing, though -- good COBOL programmers make a ton of money these days, due to demand and supply discrepancies... Of course, COBOL apps were much more corporate and mission critical than VFP apps are, so there's a big difference. How's that for arguing and reversing a position in one small paragraph. I oughta go into politics <g>


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>>Great stuff John,
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>>My earnings have increased about the same in the last two years and "I have a great job, an unlimited potential, not bounded by a development environment that you have to justify every time you mention its name." AND I didn't have to spend 9 months of my own time learning something new.
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>>The point is that everyone's situation is different, some people need to move on if their situation warrants it, others do not. It's not even that one language is more powerful, scalable, robust etc. its that you can meet the customers demands and MOST languages can do that.
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>>Bob
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>>>>Talk about thread drift......
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>>>>Where are all the .Net proclaimers to tell me how worthwhile and lucrative the switch was for them. How the thousands of hours relearning and retooling their shops has paid off handsomely, I want to hear your stories.
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>>>>They always seem to be here to tell us the VFP is dead or that if your not doing .Net your not a real programmer, I want someone to make the real argument, the main reason we all program, is how it benefits you financially?
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>>>Well it didn't take you long to revert to the old self.
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>>>My earnings increased by 20K in the last 2 years since my switch to .net/c#. I took advantage of a number of opportunities including code camps and built a net work of highly informed people who helped make my tranisition and my productivity much easier than it would have been. It paid off for me, I have a great job, an unlimited potential, not bounded by a development environment that you have to justify everytime you mention its name. Look at it anyway you want, if you want a financial increase and opportunity, then move to a different platform, i.e., ruby, java, php, .net, c#builder, delphi, etc. Your opportunities will definately be greater than remaining with VFP and being phased out as projects get re-written. Thankfully, I made the switch beginning in 2002 (unpaid and self-training) and was in front of the wave of momentum, which prepared me to make the switch 2 years ago which resulted in a tremendous increase in my financial base.
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>>>Others may have differing views, but that's reality for me.