>Maybe we should :). I'm still hearing complaints from foxen who had to go to the dark side (ah, what we do to survive) about the epic verbosity of the platform, about pages you have to write to achieve something that was a three-liner in fox... even some big news that recently happened in there was something we took for granted in the last century. So it took them only 18 years to get it right...
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The verbosity is still there but not nearly as much as it was.

-Most developers have adopted or built their own frameworks that compress that verbosity into classes and methods that can be called with a few lines of code for frequently used activities. Yes, you'll never see the brevity of REPLACE a WITH b, but that kind of code disappeared from VFP anyway when SQL Server became the preferred data store

-.NET has evolved dramatically over that past 10 years, especially with web classes and methods. Simultaneously 3rd party extensions have proliferated. The result is that there's virtually nothing that can't be done with .NET now.

In any case, it's a moot point. Each passing day makes VFP more obsolete.