>>>John, Rod, got room for another on the ship? This rat knows when the waterline is creeping upward...
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>OK. < Phew >. I feel better now, because I've been forced to admit that VB knowledge pays handsome dividends in the Wintel marketplace, even if you don't write VB for a living. VBA, ASP, the WSH, all have strong VB syntax roots, so even for the most devout VFP fanatics, some VB seems inevitable...
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>Anyone else need a life preserver?

I've got one. The areas of programming that currently interest me most are Windows, Internet, and MS technologies that fall outside of the programming language specific realm (COM, MTS, MSMQ). I hope that if and when I need to make a buck using VB or whatever, a lot of my time spent studying will transfer nicely into my new language. I hold no loyalties to VFP; that's not to say I don't love it, and it's definitely my language of choice, but come the day when it makes more sense to use another tool for the job, I won't think twice about it. Heck, VFP was my new language just a couple of years ago.

John- when I said "who cares" in another thread, it was for these reasons. It's just not worth getting worked up about, and we definitely shouldn't spend a lot of energy predicting outcomes that we can't know about, and have little control over. I think that that was Ed's sentiment for starting the thread, and I don't think it was a waste of bandwidth to say, anymore than any other thread in the Chatter section.