>Walter,
>What you write is exactly what I hear from FoxInCloud users or future users - they feel like general practitioners facing modern medicine.
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>To me there are people with business and IT backgrounds in this community, and they have a hard time understanding each others.
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>Many softwares built with VFP are 'business' softwares, mainly ERPs requiring skills all along the full cycle of a given business: sales, procurement, work force, production, accounting, etc. The people behind these softwares focus on understanding their client's needs, training them, etc., rather than exploring all the possible technologies; these people need easy IT solutions.
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>On the other hand we have people mainly focused on computer sciences, and have a great traction and dedicate enough time in learning new techs, try new tools, etc. We often read these people encourage others to learn these new techs, otherwise they will die, etc.
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>It's quite obvious to me that the tech industry follows cycles favoring alternatively 'techies' and 'funcies' ('funcies' for 'functional-oriented people'); funcies took the lead in the late 80's; since 2005 (irruption of JavaScript, AJAX, etc.), techies clearly dominate. StackOverflow has taken advantage of this evolution.
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>The issue is that, at the end, only the 'funcies' can really drive successful and ambitions projects; and the 'techies' finally provide what the latter need.

Thierry,

I think that pretty much sums it up. I know quite a few software developers that quit because it all became too complex. They were good in solving business solutions, but could not keep up with the ever increasing complexities to implement it.


Another of my axes to grind is with strict types languages. In this day and age we should not be dealing with technologies to keep the compiler happy. We should have already created more advancements in 4GL or even 5GL languages where you specify WHAT needs to be done, rather than the HOW. Let the tool deal with the how.

Tools like FoxInCloud hiding the complexities of stuff that should be trivial (but isn't) should take traction in this decade.

Best,

Walter