It freaks me out. I looked at those PRGs and thought "Thirteen years...THIRTEEN YEARS!!".

Now, mind you, what makes this worse IMHO is that in 1987 I considered myself a pretty experienced application developer. But the technological scope of what I had to learn from, say, 1982 to 1987 (5 years) was nothing compared to what I have had to grasp in the last 5 years. From '82 to '87 I went from dBASE II, CP/M, TurboDOS, DataFlex, and Condor to dBASE II+/IV, MS-DOS 3.1, NetWare, FoxBase+, and Clipper Summer '87. Not too much change in the way you scoped out an app.

From '95 to present I've had to learn VFP 3.0, 5.0, 6.0, VFPCOM, VBA, VB Script, OLE DB/ADO, TSQL ... not to mention gain a more than passing familiarity with XML, COM, CORBA, COM+, ODBC, Windows DNA.....

Don't you have the feeling that even the most experienced VFP developers sometimes feel like roadkill on some of these technologies? It's VERY difficult to keep up....


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>Yeesh, I'll have to go home and check the dates on those old dBase II diskettes. Now that I think about it, I guess it has been a while. The rapid pace of technology just makes it seem like yesterday, I guess.