>>But, I need to be honest here -- as someone who works on a consulting basis for several companies, in work that includes interviewing potential programmers -- I would not hire someone who only knows VFP. Sorry, but it is true.
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>I feel sorry for any company whose hiring managers look only at what letters an applicant has on her resume, and the number of years after those letters. Someone charged with finding good people should have the skill to look beyond VFP/VB and see how well the programmer knows programming, and how good te applicant is at problem solving. It might take a good VFP programmer 3-4 months to become productive in VB, but after that a bad programmer who already knew VFP will never catch up.


"a bad programmer who already knew VFP will never catch up."

Sorry, better change the above line to:

"a bad programmer who already knew VB will never catch up."