Doug,

>Let me ask you this: How many langiages do you program mwith? I currently use VFP for about 85-90% of my work and SQL scripting is going to take a larger future percentage as well as VB6.0 for the simple reason that VB makes easier to implement COM objects from everything I can discern, even though I plan to use VFP for all of mine until forced to do otherwise.

Well through time i've programmed in:
- Basic (GWbasic, MSx-basic)
- Pascal (turbo pascal, borland)
- Z80 Assembly code
- C / C++
- FPD/FPW/VFP

My take on the whole is that if there is really a need of switching languages, that there will be enough time to do so when MS drops any development on VFP. With my base-knowledge of several languages it would not be that difficult to switch. We'll cross the bridge when we come to it, and i would propably the last one who abandons the ship.

>Does that help a little?

Yep, I do undrstand the sensitivities, but on the other hand I don't think we have to worrie that much. Of cource MS could withdraw VFP, but I could do it also with VB (Less Likely). Personally I can't spend my time on learning another language on the same level as I know VFP. There are other things I want to learn more trhougely, which seems a hell more important than just another development language:

- automation with office packages
- Using RDC automation with Crystal Reports
- Using MAPI
- Learn about developping application for the internet (Now a black hole)
- ADO, RDO, XML, etc..
- Deplying COM and DCOM solutions
- Using MTS
- Using Databaseservers (SQL server/Oracle)
- etc ......

Personally I find these items much, MUCH, * M U C H * more important than the programming language. When I manage to be an expert on this fields either I probably would not need to learn another language to program is as my expertice on these fields would be enough.

So you'll guess the I find this 'thinking out of the box' thing only applies to another technologies, not other programming languages (maybe except for C++).

Walter,