Doug,

>As a developer that has used Fox products since early 1987 I can tell you that I have more work right now than I can handle and could get more if I chose. Having said that what I got from the whole thread (barring the abruptness, rudeness and pettiness I saw *g*) was that it was smart as a developer to have more than one tool in your arsenal. This I agree with. Here in the States, and here in Utah and California where I'm familiar I'd doubt that either a VB programmer or a VFP programmer would have trouble finding work though I'd bet you probably need to look a little harder in the VFP side since those kinds of jobs usually need to match a specific skill set with a specific task. A Java programmer would be scooped up on their first day in the market from everything I can see, particularly web-based development. It's HOT HOT HOT right now.
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>Sounds like your second tool of choice would be Java. The important thing is to have one or more IMO.

To me, it does not make sense to me. Investing time in both languages takes considerable effort, while at the moment there is no need to. As I tried to say before it might be wise to learn another one or two languages at the basics, but becoming a expert on these would be ridiculous. there would be time enough when the ship is beginning to sink. As I pointed out there is much to learn about all kinds of technologies which seems a hell more important than another development language.

I don't know what language to learn (at the expert level) when i HAVE to abandon VFP. VB ?, C++, Visual xxxx ? java ? I don't worry about this, yet.

When the ships sinks, I'll build my own.....

Walter,