>>>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.
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>>At 1990s I remembered was at a job interview. They asked me Cobol's sections. I just remembered three of four. :)
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>>Cobol was terrible, but Cobol developers earn good nowadays, it's hard do find one.
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>Yup, it does what it was designed to do very well. I still get "Hey, we have the contract for COBOL - you interested?" emails from recruiters

My plan C, if everything else including plan B fails, was to find such a contract and then write a cobol generator in fox. Luckily, plan A worked :).