>>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?

I've often heard Tom Rettig being credited with setting the tone for the community early on. There may be some truth to that because Tom didn't start using Fox until FoxPro 2.0, and I don't remember there being much of a community in the Foxbase days (at least I wasn't aware of it).