Right on, Edward!!!

That is precisely why I am VERY critical of the quality / content / accuracy of VFP documentation.

I'm will to bet that lots TRY VFP but that most drop out because of the UNCLARITY of the documentation.

regards,
Jim N

>>>>>Here in Brazil we have frequently heard that Microsoft will abandon Visual
>>>>>FoxPro. Because this rumors many clipper developers are mainly going to
>>>>>DELPHI and Visual basic.
>>>>>
>>>>Visual FoxPro is not going away. Microsoft is supporting it.
>>>>
>>>>However, Microsoft is in favor of abandoning DELPHI. :)
>>>Carl,
>>>
>>>Just a note I think you'll appreciate. You did have the April Fools joke on your web site, am I correct?
>>>
>>>There was a message in teh VFOX forum on Compuserve about a wekk ago form a friend of mine in the DC area. he said that the company he is working with had proposed a system for one of the military branches of the US (which the company really didn't want to do) to be done in VFP. The project was denied and in the lenghty denial the VFP VBA web information was quoted as part of the proof that VFP was not a viable language to be used . An example of our government at work, dupped by an April Fools Joke.
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>>I love all the bad press that VFP gets. All the scared programmers running to weaker, less flexible DBMS's. More work for me! I love it. ;-)
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>>Seriously though, I think VFP kicks tail for data delivery, and improvements are made regularly. VFP marketed itself last year without any help from the MS machine and now MS has seen the light and has finally begun to put marketing dollars behind VFP, which is, if not its best, one of its best development platforms. As developers, it then becomes our responsibility to show all these nay-sayers what VFP can really do. I'm up for challenge...and excited about it.
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>>Just my humble (NOT) opinion...
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>>Matt
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>I agree with you Matt, but there is a grave problem here: there is no such thing as entry-level Fox programmer anymore (basically), and this fact is driven the language down: many companies just cannot afford to hire senior-level people only.