>>>Note that I had to relearn javascript every 2-3-4 years (used it so often :), and that I managed to push my way to retirement without ever learning .net; I can read C# and it's very amusing, in the amount of dance one has to write to satisfy the compiler. Spoiled by interpretive language, aren't we?
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>>Oh lordy yes! One of the things that makes me want to chew my desk is how many WORDS it takes in C# to do a simple thing for VFP.
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>I've heard that complaint many times over from various people who left the life of ease in VFP and went to the dark side. Just like that example with new object, where the class name is mentioned more than once (why?). Or the dataset where you have to make a method call for each replace. The main reason I'm happy that I pushed all those 30 years with my 2nd programming language. As for verbosity to do compiler's job, thanks, had that in the first language. Yes, you guessed, it was Cobol.

At 1990s I remembered was at a job interview. They asked me Cobol's sections. I just remembered three of four. :)

Cobol was terrible, but Cobol developers earn good nowadays, it's hard do find one.