>>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!
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>>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.
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>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.
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Walter seems to 'ignore' these issues. But, then, since he's not interested in hearing it, I am probably wasting space repeating the arguments...thanks.
I didn't start life in the xBASE/data-centric development environment, so may lack of aversion to picking up and examining tools to find a fit to the problem, rather than trying to wedge the problem into a mold where the tool I have can work on the problem may not be typical. Like I said, VFP is good, but I'd want to have a solid fallback position if (not when) the VFP market dries up, whether short- or long-term. VB just is not that different syntactically from VFP to make learning it that hard. If you can write competent VFP, you can use it to bootstrap knowledge of and competence in VB fairly quickly, and
knowing VB does not cause long-term brain damage...I hope.
>Do you really pay rent? It's just a curiosity, I thought that I'm real exception here, while most people pay mortgage.
Actually, I make a mortgage payment, but the phrase "pay the rent" seems to be more widely used and accepted...
