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What is the VFP community missing?
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07/11/2000 12:02:09
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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00437641
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John

>>Too simplisitic.. Sure, productivity is important - very important. However, the tool has to be accepted as well. It is a multi-pronged argument.<<

No, you're making it complicated. Acceptability is just one of many cues that contribute to peoples's assessment of productivity. Acceptability may loom large for you, but I can assure you it does not for everybody. Eg: the 55-year-old FP2.0 developer whose 1990 application is used by a thousand mom-and-pops and still returns $250,000 a year having made her a millionaire several times over in the last decade. Her definition of "productivity" does not even include VFP7 let alone its "Acceptability". Who are we to judge?

>>How about those that are productive with VFP, but can't find a job in VFP? What should they do? <<

If you can't find a job in VFP and having a job is how one is productive, then you are not productive. So you move. Which is what I said. Lets not make this complicated.

>>Shifting today and preparing for tomorrow are NOT mutually exclusive. Don't confuse preparation with shifting...< s >..<<

Surely we agree that "preparing for tomorrow" can include staying productive while looking carefully at opportunities. That's what I'm saying. No confusion this end.

>>Why am I not surprised by this...< bg >...<<

I'm not sure what you mean. An ad hominam back-hander, perhaps? Or not surprised that Java was less productive? Actually I'm not sure it was Java that was the mistake but the timing. I did it too soon. Lesson learned. Applies here too.

>>I think if you advise people to not do what you did, you are definitely on target. If you are advising people not to listen to others, I think you should let people decide for themselves. <<

I said to ignore the slogans, soundbites and general FUD that some people produce and see what is left and consider that. I do not see how you would extrapolate this to advising people "not to listen to others". I'm advising people not to listen to FUD. People can decide what is FUD and what is useful for themselves. Surely we agree.

>>As for these last paragraphs, I don't have a clue as to what your intended point is or what you are trying to say...< s >...<<

I'm saying that intelligent people always have and always will be able to make up their own minds about what they should do, based on their own values and their own environment. Trying to say today what one will be doing in five years is an exercise in crystal-ball gazing IMHO. Maybe you knew in 1995 that you'd be in law school this year but I'd suggest that few others here find themselves in that particular situation and you should not extrapolate. I'm sure you would agree that somebody who declares that their answer and only their answer is correct for everybody, risks being consigned to the realm of clinical "delusions of grandeur" or religious bigotry. Not looking at anybody in particular when I say that.

JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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