>>>Yesterday in a meeting with a new face at a Client's office he said "FoxPro is the software no one uses any more". Fortunately someone else remarked that the main purpose of the software was to get the job done and that it was doing the job very well.
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>>>You all must have come across this situation. What answers have you given and what software have Clients suggested as being better than VFP and for what reasons?
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>>I usually tell them that Microsoft is simply not creating new versions anymore. Unfortunately they forgot to create a vaiable alternative to the strengths of VFP. Therefore we wait for the next wave of new technology (in regards to dynamic types languages) as we don't see the current strict type .NET languages as a viable alternative.
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>What do you have against strong typing? It catches many bugs early.

I HATED it when I started using C# because I was accustomed to the 'anything goes' of VFP. Now I love it.