>Recently I heard a well known figure in the Foxpro community make this statement:
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>"Foxpro programmers are not computer science graduates"
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>I have a degree in computer science, am I the only one? Could I get a show of hands (of pixels?) of who has what kind of computer background?

I'm not a Fox programmer, I'll admit it (I do however remember the days of dBase and Clipper), but I am more intrigues by the structure of the sentence (no, not an English, language or litterary degree either)...

Perhaps the originator of this phrase feels high and mighty because he's a C/C++ guru, or maybe he enjoys spending his time developping complex RDBMS apps for Windows in Assembly language (not a major standing ground)... I fail to see the logistics of what he/she(?) has said.

Perhaps this was meant to mean that the code this person (let's remain PC and gender neutral now!) has seen some code that was over-bloated or under-performing. I'm mainly a VB user, moving to start using C++ (visual or other) and VB is a simple language at it's base as well... But what matters is not what you code, but how you code it. If I hadn't gotten my degree (CS from a specialized tech. Institute), I would probably be able to do 75-80% of what I'm doing now, but I garantee you that the code would be horrible. CS isn't about learning the languages (for the most part), it's learning how to conceive code, workflow, algorithm's and analysis.

Just my 0.02$CAN worth...

Hugo