>If I am reading John Koziol & Craig Berntson post about VFP's standing, I feel good and hopeful, but if coming from John Petersen, I feel bad and hopeless.
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>Are VFPers just disillusioned about VFP recovering?
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>Here in East Asia, Visual Foxpro is really recovering its ground in the marketplace. Are we going to be part of the product's recovery or part of making a coffin for the product? MS seems serious on their
>commitment, how about you?
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>People like John Petersen will most likely to laugh at us if VFP will not recorver. Why? He is playing safe...
>Look at his book by Prima publishing, it's nothing as compare to Hentzenwerke's.
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>I am just knew here in UT but my impression is that John Petersen is like a lawyer. It seems no fault on him, and he knows everything.
>He is the one who can make crooked, straight and the straight, crooked. He should be hired by MS as lawyer in the lawsuit and MS will most likely to win.
>Mr. Petersen is technically expert maybe, but it's not enough. I don't know his genuine color: optimist, realist, or pessimist? How about you guys?
If I had to bet on ONE language being around tomorrow morning, I'd bet on C. It doesn't mean I dislike VFP (I don't, I really, really, like it!) - at least not nearly as much as I dislike VB. VB has market share and market recognition in its favor. VFP is a stronger data-centric language. Both products were written in VC++ so neither one is worth anything IAC without C! < g >
I know I can go out and peddle my services writing C even if MS falls off the face of the Earth and Linux takes over the universe as we know it. Linux was written in C...so was NT, and Win9x and
VB has strengths, and is appealing to several classes of custoemrs - the ones who are going to have to maintain a pool of talent and want what's widely available to increae the number of candidates to choose from, and people who don't want to hear about tools other than whatever the market leader du jour is because it's the tool and not the talent of the person using it from their POV." Clients tend to hire me less because I'm a good VFP or C programmer, but because I'm a good programmer, and can figure out what they need and build something for them. I don't go and try to second-guess professionalsm that I hire because of their expertise - I don't use my doctor because he likes BrandX antibiotics instead of BrandY that's less well advertised - I use him because I trust his judgement and professionalism; I pay my lawyer to explain what my legal issues are, to develop a plan of action and a set of working documents that improve my position. Hmmmm....sounds like why someone might pick one programmer over another, assuming that they were viewed as professionals.
