>I am due to start a new job tomorrow. The job consists of supporting a FoxPro for Windows 2.6 app and the promised opportunity to work on some of their .NET apps as well, including the port of this one to .NET "once it's stable." Hmmm -- written in such an ancient version and still not stable? Are you getting an image of finely engineered software? Me neither.

The best time to convert to VFP9 - read my lips: no new bugs.

> I can't quite put into words how little enthusiasm I have for this position. FPW?! No OOP, no real GUI (they may as well have called it Windows Lite or Pretend Windows)

Have you seen the houses here? Almost every one has pretend shades nailed to the wall on the outside, next to each window. The quasi shades are as tall as the window, but are never wide enough, so even if they were actually on hinges and not on nails, they'd never meet in the middle - specially on my front windows which are more than two meters wide and still have about 40cm wide shades on each side.

Now if whole Virginia can have such Pretend Shades, what's wrong with Pretend Windows? Have we become too picky and spoiled by the vices of OOP, eh?