>You: But to reply to your wager: you would lose the bet.
>Me. Never have yet

You: I would be willing to wager your conversion was not the rare exception.
Me: You just lost, to me.

Our conversions have paid for themselves over and over again in productivity gains, application performance, end-user enhancements/satisfaction, and with far less hassle with, for just one example, not having to deal with multiple 3rd party add-on tools/workarounds/kludges. We are literally several times more productive in WinDev than in VFP in so many ways. But I repeat myself.


>>>IN my original postI I referred VFP + FiC, sorry if that was not clear. BTW, FiC is simply subclasses for some VFP base classes.
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>>>Certainly I have classes I use repeatedly with VFP, but they are classes created in abd with VFP.
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>>>While I can admit to a theoretical possible scenario where conversion makes sense, I have yet to see one. I have probably been involved with around 60-70 instances where I was able to shpw the error of conversion before it was too late.
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>>>I would be willing to wager your conversion was not the rare exception. Usually conversions are "sold" either by unknowledgable developers or developers looking to make a buck. Never because of a business case for said conversion. A rep for a compay that advertises VFP conversions was at SW Fox a few years back with a list of credentials of impressive sounding conversions and tools. Yet he could not think of even one where there was a business case for the conversion. It is very rare.
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>>As I said, re-write is a different discussion from the "VFP is the best" debate (which it is not). But to reply to your wager: you would lose the bet. We have been developing systems for the past 38 years and have re-written applications in newer development tools several times as the and when the newer tools presented a business case for the re-write. Usually the newer tools offered better functionality, simplified project and code management, greater platform flexibility, or whatever other benefits we felt worthwhile. We have never shied away from re-writes provided a business case to do so. This is not to argue for conversion all the time; each case must be considered on its merits.