I guess my sensitivity about "condescending behavior" is adjusted differently. (perhaps for the same reason skunks have a poor sense of smell <g> )

I really never felt very threatened by enthusiasts for .NET - many of whom were accomplished Foxpro developers who had everything to gain by maintaining their status in the VFP world and having everyone continue to do nothing else - when they started saying that not expanding one's skill set in that direction was short sighted. (and admittedly often implied that anyone who did not do so was an idiot <g> )

Perhaps they were not sensitive enough to the fear factor, the "I don't want to hear it" factor or the "But that's not fair" factor. And I really do understand the thinking of "This is a VFP forum - if you want to proselytize for .NET do it somewhere else" I guess I saw it as people who had earned a place as members of a community trying to share discovery and excitement with friends. I never thought it was the language that defined the community but rather the community that made the language special.

For the most part the condescending evangelists didn't seem to be people who were unaware of how VFP worked or the wonderful things it could accomplish. Many of them were more competent to accomplish those things in VFP than a lot of the people who were defended a Fox-centric world.

I didn't immediately change my behavior as a result of their Jeremiads ( just as I managed to ignore the very good advice to look at SQL Server longer than I should have ) but I tucked a lot of it away for further processing.

I accept that others are more or less sensitive to some things than I am, but I do feel that a lot of people who actually had information and discoveries to share got tired of worrying about hurting people's feelings or scaring them or being seen as apostates and just left. Personally, I miss them.

But again, a chacun son gout.

>Charles, I guess there are multiple reasons if people have departed. I don't believe that anti-NET-ism is one of them. Blessed with a good memory I can assure you that >90% of the "trouble" I saw was caused by condescending behavior by NET converts. In the old days it generated a firestorm; these days it is largely ignored unless somebody really goes out of their way to be a swine. Inevitably the culprit acts injured and pretends the reaction is to NET, not to their own spite. I recall only one such example this year.
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