I jumped on the FoxPro bus when version 2.0 came out. PC Magazine came out with a rave review and it hit me at the right time. At the time I was an executive and former developer with a mainframe software company that had a lock on the big players in the grocery industry. I said we can reach the mid and small markets with an inventory control package that we sell for $50,000 and not half a million. Nobody wanted to hear that. But I bought FP 2.0 and fiddled with it in the evening and convinced myself it could be done.

I was naive about marketing and didn't sell it once, even though it did everything the big iron version did and more. I thought if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a bath to your door. Whoops. But that's how I became a PC developer.

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