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>Part of that is because the VFP crowd _can_ upgrade without breaking stuff. If I remember correctly the upgrade from VB4 to VB5 broke backwards compatibility did it not? And VB6 to VB.NET is breaking backward compatibility in a _huge_ way.
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>Absolutely correct.

Seems to be the poor guys have to undergo this sort of shock for each odd version, while we had it only twice - from FoxPlus to FoxPro, and then from FP to VFP. But each time the old code continued running with a neglectable number of glitches.