>I agree wholeheartedly with your philosophy, but in practice I have seen people lose contracts -- and credibility -- trying to tell the project manager the benefits of VFP over VB. If a man hires you to train his Poodle, you don't start by telling him to get a Doberman. I simply pass on those jobs. There's more VFP work here in Tampa than I'll ever get around to, I'm not going to argue platform choice.

While I sympathize, I think it behooves us to evangelize for VFP, at least to the extent of pointing out a few facts when faced with a VB bigot (by "bigot" I mean managers who don't know anything, not programmers who use VB and are comfortable with it).