Oh, yeah, hon, takes nothing more that a DevCon to make me feel nostalgic :-)

>Boy, aren't *we* feeling nostalgic! <g>

>OK, well, now you've gone and changed the topic too much ... did you forget that I'm a .NET developer now??? <g> Actually, although I haven't done much with Fox in a few years, I'm certainly not ashamed of my past and still jump to the rescue of Fox if I hear people denigrate it. I really got my programming start on PC's with FoxPro (my prior main-frame years with Cobol do not count!!!) and I learned OOP with Visual FoxPro. I still love it, I'm just not using it at the moment (sad to say though, I probably won't be using it much anymore either) ... although, we do have a VFP utility app that I wrote that we use for versioning our SQL Server databases and it's distributed to our customers too!!

No, I didn't forget, Bonnie.

I'm also a .Net developer but since I've been a test engineer since 2001 it's been tough to re-educate myself in both the tools and the mentality. I also have not been avoiding VFP it's just that I haven't been asked to do it. I also jump to it's rescue and boy was I battered in Atlanta.

I'm also trending towards forgetting my punch card COBOL (ANSI-68!) with JCL. My first PC stuff I was actually paid for was on an Apple II in 1979 using Applesoft Basic - an inventory program as I recall. After that, a sales analysis program I wrote in Condor 3, an early database. Also around that time a multi-user scheduling app using DataFlex under TurboDOS - a multiuser version of CP/M. My first xBase experience was dBase II in 1983 but I didn't do anything with it until dBase III in 1983 or 84.