>>For those lurking, Tamar does not need my approbation. Nonetheless I would be remiss if I did not point out that she has done as much or more for the VFP community than anyone here. We need more Tamar's here and fewer people spouting illogical personal attack nonsense.
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>Tuvia, I think the Fox community has been blessed with great contributors over the years. I think now is a good time to once again recognize them. Some have contributed more in the commercial area and some more in the community area, but the bottom line is that a number of talented and dedicated people created a wealth of content that helped Fox developers.
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>My own "personal" hall of fame....the authors/speakers whose efforts helped me as a developer:
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>Les Pinter (I won some major contracts and an award at age 25 in part because of what I learned from Les' books)
>Rich Strahl
>Markus Egger
>Tamar
>Ken Levy
>Steve Black
>Ted Roche
>Della Martin
>Doug H.
>Pat Adams
>JVP
>Whil Hentzen
>Melissa Dunn
>George Goley
>YAG
>Drew Speedie (despite whatever the truth is, he will always be my absolute favorite)
>Marcia
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>Although I haven't used Fox in years, special mention to Rick Schummer. I've seen some of his content in the last five years and I think he's outstanding.
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>Sure, there were other Fox authors who contributed a great deal. (And I'm sure I'm forgetting someone whose articles/books I used).
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>This product has had a rich history. I remember using FoxBASE 2.1 instead of dBase III Plus back in 1988 because Fox was a million times faster. And then there was historic day in Perrysburg in fall of 1989 when Dr. Dave had FoxPro 1 on one machine and dBase IV on another one. Only fitting that Dr. Dave's first name was Dave....because David didn't just slay Goliath on that day, he kicked Ashton Tate's butt. Sometimes I feel like a "war correspondent" of sorts, because I saw much of the history. It's a great history.

Tom Rettig