>Given its current state, is it possible for the VFP language and the VFP community to rise from the ashes and become the powerful tool and vibrant community that it once was?
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I see no reason to think it will. It's not dead but it's not going to get any better than it is now. Hanging onto it in hopes the market will regain that lovin' feelin' it had for FoxPro in the early 1990s would be a very risky course of action IMO.