>>Let me ask a question: Why do you want to know this ? The future of VFP is just as sure as any other (MS) development tool (maybe except for visual C++). VFP 7 is scheduled for late next year.
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>Why would VC++ be any different?

Probably because NT, Office and many other things are written in C++... Unless they come up with something better... and, well, J++ was just dropped.

Java is the only langague I have read about which compiles smaller, and runs faster than C++ code but requires less code to be written.

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