It is not the same example you originally gave. You said; "So, if you are a virtuoso using a tool and this tool works fine, just keep it, you'll always be better than trying to use someone else's tool."

Not everyone is a "virtuoso". Most developers will be average. For new projects, they will benefit far more from moving to a new IDE and using new tools which do so much for them vs. sticking with a language (VFP) which ended development years ago.

You think my post is about promoting WinDev vs. FIC - it is not. WinDev is not a competitor to FIC because FIC is not a programming language as such. FIC seems to me essentially a convertor which enables VFP apps to run on a server and appear to the user via their browser. In which case, TSPLus and similar tools are the competitive products and TSPlus, for example, runs VFP or any app inside any HTML5 supported browser (in Windows, iOS, Linux, Android) without changing 1 line of code and the app appears 100% exactly as designed.


>Joss,
>What the JavaScript developers did in he last 10 years can compare to what Picasso did on painting: a modern and ever growing system out of an outdated, presumably dumb language. It is indeed a similar example.
>
>>I think I have understood your post well enough. Most developers are not Picassos. And your new Picasso example is not the same example as before. In this new example both painters use the same tools therefore obviously the more expert painter will do better. That was not the original scenario.
>>
>>>Jos,
>>>
>>>I don't really care whether you agree or not with a post you misunderstood.
>>>
>>>To illustrate my point, Picasso and an average painter do totally different paintings using the same tools. The difference lies in 3 areas:
>>>1- Picasso is talented for painting
>>>2- Picasso has teamed with many other painters like Braque and others
>>>3- Picasso has worked much more than other painters
>>>Nowhere does the tooling play any role in Picasso's work.
>>>
>>>What counts most is how much collective intelligence a community puts in using its tools.
>>>