>>>>I know I am being presumptuous by speaking for him. My thinking was this.
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>>>>1. Rick is a tool maker, not a tool user.
>>>>2. He seems to like things done cleanly, not kludges.
>>>>3. He moved on from FoxPro years ago. He was among the first among us to embrace .NET.
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>>>So you consider Etechnologia's stuff to be a 'kludge?'
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>>That was not the best word I could have chosen. It may in fact be technically elegant. But the last thing anyone but diehards need is a way to keep FoxPro alive. It's way past time to move on.
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>Move to what exactly ? What is the sound alternative today ? Last time I checked there was nothing out there that beats fox.
>(And No, NET could be the complement, but it is not an alternative)
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>Did I miss something ?

Have you missed that most of the strongest Fox supporters and most successful Fox developers 5-10 years ago have already moved on to other development platforms?

YAG, McNeish, Strahl, Paddock, Eggers, Leafe, Massey ... it's a pretty long list. I bet every one of them has nice things to say about VFP, but somehow they have found alternatives. I'm sure you will too when it makes good business sense for you. Everybody's situation is different.

I'm currently living half in one world and half in another and that is kind of fun too <s> I get to feel really smart and experienced and reall dumb and clueless in the same day. My wife likes my .NET efforts as she reminds me any humbling experience is good for me <g>

.NET is not Fox, but it is fun to work with something that has been the result of so much effort on the part of MS and others and it is quite capable of working with data very nicely while benefiting from a very large and growing community. That, more than anything about the language, was always what I liked best about Fox.