>>Were you so lazy to check the people who already received the award? Tamar already got it in 2007.
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>>Jesus Christ, Naomi, chill out - he didn't realize or he forgot.
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>>I'm copying Doug on this because I want to mention a name that no one (to many knowledge) has mentioned: Les Pinter.
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>>I go all the way back to (close to) the beginning, with FoxBase in 1987/1988. I used a great deal of Les' content in my first 5-6 years with Fox. He wrote some great books and a good newsletter with valuable code that helped MANY developers. I always enjoyed talking to Les at conferences. Regardless of Les' work wih .NET, Les belongs in a "VFP Hall of Fame".
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>Agreed.
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>If this were being done by an independent body the first guy in would have been Tom Rettig. Lisa Slater and George Goley would have been close behind. It is not an independent body and no one should mistake it for one. It's a treehouse club.

treehouse club ?