>>The Gartner Group has already declared VFP dear about 3 times!
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>And they are right, aren't they? I would put VFP in the same Camp with PB, and Perhaps Delphi... they have a cult size following that is not growing.
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>Perhaps a letter writting campaign is in order to Gartner Group... perhaps we can send them some case studies, large stuff that has been done for some large companies... I know there is alot of stuff out there. I also know, that most consultants [groups]don't get paid to write Case Studies, but they get paid to write code.... so, this could be a problem.
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>BOb

Dead and stagnant are not synonymous. While I agree VFP doesn't have the following of VB, it is not dead (yet.) I think seeing threads like this displayed can only have a negative effect on newcomers. Those of us who are die hards will continue to use it for a long time. Even so, I guess most of us are hedging our bets by learning new languages - (I'm learning VB because of the market share - no other reason.) However, I plan to use VFP for any data intensive applications for the forseeable future.