I guess that applies to my adoption of FoxPro 1 -- I saw that windows in data applications was needed, not just desirable, and no matter that FP1 didn't really do it, I had faith it was going where I needed to go.

BTW: I read about BB regularly from the time I started reading Time Magazine, which was about the time that Ike took office. <s>

Hank

>>>And I'd like if if WPF were going to be around for a while (well, it will be around for a while, it just won't be updated in any significant manner),
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>Bernard Baruch, a sage investor (WAY before most of you were born) had a simple motto:
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>"Buy too late and sell too soon."
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>That's how most of us have to approach a new programming language. It just takes too much effort and time to allow for blind alleys and dead ends and the cost to the client for a bad choice can be huge.
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>When it comes to making a serious investment in learning and deploying a new language:
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>-there are some serious real world benefits (not "cool" stuff - although that's fun if it comes with the benefits)
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>-thousands of serious business apps have been deployed and are still running and are being upgraded
>-at least 5 years have passed since its announcement
>-the publisher is obviously making some serious money with it.
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>then, maybe a schlub like me can take a chance on it.
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>That said, thank goodness that there are those quick-witted people out there who can blaze the trails with these things and let the schlubs see what's real and not real.
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>>>And I'd like if if WPF were going to be around for a while (well, it will be around for a while, it just won't be updated in any significant manner),