Some of these people who think that VFP will be still be viable in 2050 because it's the premier data handling environment should attend a code camp or dotnet user group or any big dotnet event.

Data handling is never, ever, ever brought up as a big issue. Dotnet programmers seem to be making out just fine without "Auto-spanning.......".

>>It was never 'premier developer platform'. Somehow it managed to outlive
>>(by being able to outdo) meny of those.
>>If you were all that happy with NET (congrats on learing 14000 classes) you would'nt be hanging here indefenetely/beating it on top of our ignorant VFP heads.
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>Where were you in the 1990's. It was THE premier development environment. Almost all data intensive apps were being done in FOX. Now, almost no data intensive apps are done in VFP.