>And expecting competent VFP developers to remain ignorant and unqualified with other tools and platforms that can handle the job the right way is both arrogant and stupid. The time you spend kludging and patching stuff with bubble gum and bailing wire would be better spent learning a tool that does what you want properly. I'm not proud of Rube Goldbergian solutions kludged together to avoid doing things right...and I'd certainly rather not have to care for them long-term. In this case, YMCV!

>What I'm trying to say is not that knowing VFP is not a bad thing, but that investing time and effort in other tools like VB, C++, Java and the like is a smart move, and a good thing, as much as it might be distatsteful to some people to know more than one thing. Especially if you're relying on new job opportunities to pay the rent.

Ed,
The problem is that these facts are known so good that repetition of them does not make much help. What's the point in telling that white wall is really white?
It borders to straw man argument: you build some obsoletely confined VFP developer image ahd then fight it.

Do you really pay rent? It's just a curiosity, I thought that I'm real exception here, while most people pay mortgage.