>>A good part of the reason that the VFP board is so successful is that VFP has a strong community--stronger than any other language you're likely to use. People in this community are more willing to share knowlege and help others.
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>I have often wondered why Foxheads were like this. Did some early gurus set the tone? Is the type development prone to sharing? Is there something about FoxPro and VFP that make it easy or necessary to share? Is it because a lot of VFP developers work by themselves or in small shops?

Not necessarily having to do with foxheads and a bunch of gurus. I've seen this in an obscure Fox forum which was just one among dozen other forums back in Yugoslavia. The Clipper people were sharing, but they had a couple of godlike guys who wouldn't give up their opinion even if they were wrong, then a half-empty PB forum, some esoteric chat in C forum, and full solidarity in Fox forum.

Of course, this forum vanished when we found UT :).