>I interviewed at a huge corporate IT environement recently. The needed an experienced VFP developer to service the installed applications until they could be rewritten VB and upsized into ORACLE. Basically, they wanted me to help exterminate my own job function. "No new development is VFP," I was told. They promised me that I would retrained in VB and ORACLE technologies and were offering a huge compensation package. I almost considered it, but I didn't like the environment. Beyond that, the commute would have been too far.
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>The point is, for many IT managers VFP is DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the large shops I feel that your experinces are going to be more frequent. Would they have upped the ante if you had some VB in your blood?

When it comes to having a language professional (Interpreter) they specialize in one language but also know others. Take any of the latin rooted languages. It's not to hard for them to switch, now look at how close VFP is to VB. Why are there som many though nuts to crack? Were we issued cement hard hats?

Or is it the conservative nature of Americans? Travel all over the globe and people speak numerous dialects and languages. I can only speak for USA attitudes here but if a tourist from any other country comes to visit they better know ENGLISH. And travel to the south they better know some "bubba speak" ie. redneck.

__Stephen