Yeah.....that would explain COBOL, FORTRAN, and Assembler

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>I don't think VFP has been thrown under the bus, its just the normal life cycle. When I started programming in 1982, there was MS Pascal. I liked it, it was good, then came Turbo Pascal. I loved that program and used it exclusively for years. When it morphed into Object Pascal, I felt betrayed and switched to dbIII+, then to FoxBase and VFP on...
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>The point I'm trying to make I guess is that certain software will come and go. Becuase one package has had its glory days and is now giving way to new programs and new methodolgy, doesn't mean its been thrown under the bus. It simply means that it is not as viable as it once was. Fox in the 90's was the money maker for MS and was where it was at. Conference attendees in the 1,000's, numerous magazines and books, then ...... it just dried up.
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>There's a new set of players in town and having moved to them, when they die, I'll find something else unless I'm dead to by that time.