That's illegal. If you responded with a well-put comment to that effect, you could have perhaps guaranteed yourself the job.


>Charles,
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>It helps me to have your perspective, because of your age. A man in an interview in Arizona asked me my age. He hired a younger FoxPro developer, much younger and I believe from eastern Europe.
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>You start wondering about yourself when you see these things happen. I think I need to do some reality checking with myself, which is what I am trying to do. Perhaps I need to tighten up and fly right? Okay, just joking a little there. I can see that I have had a negative attitude, and need to get my mind right and commit myself once again to doing what is necessary to learn what I need to learn, otherwise, I'll let months go by and will be in a worse condition.
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>I think that I really thought I could ride the FoxPro horse a little longer, but I believe that those days are just about gone.
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>I was looking at C# WPF and thought that was pretty cool.
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>Thanks for your insight,
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>Cecil
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>>Hey, I'm 62 and the transition from Fox to .net has made programming fun again. .NET is really not that difficult but it requires a willingness to stop believing anything that isn't the same as we did it in Foxpro is somehow harder or wrong or only because the people doing it don't know how cool the Fox way was.
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>>You can do this. The trick is to get functional fast so - the very thing that made Fox so approachable. I chose to do that by adopting a framework written by former fox folks which made the whole data handling hurdle much lower. Then I could concentrate on the language and the .NET framework.
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>>The great thing is the amount of material available for learning and the communities of developers that are very reminiscent of what we had in Fox 15 years ago. Go to stackoverflow.com for example and you'll see a forum where technical questions are often answered within one minute and they have 50 Sergeys <s>
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>>In a year you can be a 57 year old, experienced developer who can get things done in c#. Right now that is a lot more marketable than a 30 year old Foxpro Guru.
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>>Remember how exciting it was when you first learned Fox and felt how powerful it was? .NET right now is really, really powerful and the IDE, community, and power of the language exceeds anything we've known in Fox even in it's heyday.