Ed,

>Asserting that no matter what you do and what other languages you have proficiency in, you're going to run into something that needs VB or VB-derived language proficiency is almost here now, at least if you stay in the Wintel platform. The result is that an investment in competency in VB pays off almost immediately, even if you never write a production system in straight VB for the rest of your life...

Aha... I'm beginning to understand your standpoint. Basicly your not saying that we should learn to develop whole applications with another development language, but must be able to understand en apply them where needed (Automation with office packages).

Here I fully agree. It doesn't make sense to me to learn to do things in another language I can already do comfortably within VFP. As I pointed out somewhere else in this thread I find it much more important to handle:

- COM/DCOM
- Automation with other software (Office, Crystal Reports, etc)
- OLE DB, ADO, XML etc.
- The Internet.
- Database servers.
- etc..

The only exception i'm willing to make is for C++. This is because this is the language if you want to write very fast and tight components and/or applications

Walter,