>>>>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?
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>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.
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>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.

True. I think everyone is simply entitled (by example) to start such a thread :-).