Hi Kenneth ------

I don't know if I'd judge that harshly. I'd agree with George on his assessment of VB and VB developers backgrounds.

Here's a theory: The average age of VFP people may be greater than VB people and by that very fact are more experienced or started developing in the days when structured programming, analysis, and documentation were very important.


>I'd like to toss out another explanation for VB's supremacy over VFP at the moment.
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>VFP developers generally are *real* programmers. That is, we value our time highly, we hate to do anything twice, we enjoy a tool that allows us to turn systematic plans into reality. We worry about things like maintainability, scalability, error trapping, robustness, etc.
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>I was taught most of what was important about programming back in a high school PASCAL course. The ideas were: document your work, plan ahead, use structured languages only (that's back when we were using GOTO's at home in our TRS-80 BASIC programs), make subroutines out of commonly used code, etc., etc., etc.
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>I am astounded at how many programmers come out of school these days and appear never to have heard of any of this. Of course VB looks great, it has such a short time-to-first-form, no planning required! Of course, what Mom and Dad taught still holds: if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. Something that appears to make large jobs possible without planning is selling a deception about one of the basic facts of life.