Walter,

>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.

Sure, I think there would be enough time to switch languages as well, so I also am not worried. That still seems to be off the point, at least as I understand, which is that it is always good to be prepared and to expanf one's horizons.

>Yep, I do undrstand the sensitivities, but on the other hand I don't think we have to worrie that much.

I don't think people are worrying as much as you think they may be.

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:
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>- 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 ......
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>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.
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Sure, but many of them need VB or another language to implement them, which is the whole point. That is, we need to learn languages to do tasks. VB just happens to be one of those languages, as is Java, C++, etc...

>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++).

Well, I try to think out of the box no matter what.

Best,

DD