>>>>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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>Is that what you call a monopoly ?

No, it's a sensible approach to designing things that work together - why have radically different language and syntax? Would it make sense to force people to learn a new, different and confusing language for each product? That seems counterproductive to me...

Or maybe you like inconsistant langugage constructs that do nothing to leverage what you've learned before? I don't, but YMMV...