Hi Cindy,

I have not seen the FP crowd so excited about anything MS ever did as they are with about this exam. For those of us that love the language this is an important moment. (And I am only a FP DOS programmer... but I already love VFP...) I think that FP in general is a beautifu language that happens to be very productive for developers because it has an attached database language and an unlimited runtime distribution license. (The last "feature" is what MS doesn't particularly like, I believe.)

Alex


>Hi all!
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>I'm trying to figure out which beta exam to take first - desktop or distributed?
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>Most people would think that the desktop is easier than the distributed, and want to take the easier one first.
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>But I have another idea...
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>I've never taken one of these exams before. I'm not sure how I'll react to the online testing. Assuming that I'm guaranteed to fail the distributed, since all I've ever done is with native Fox tables, and that I *might* have a chance at the desktop, my thinking is that I should take the distributed exam at the first possible moment. This will let me see what these tests are like, and show me a lot of material that might be on the desktop in a simpler incarnation. Then I'll take the desktop at the last possible moment, allowing myself the maximum amount of time to prepare.
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>Feedback?