>3) In contrast, VFP is a more stable language, and therefore you can gradually get very proficient at it instead of >starting anew all the time. (Except for 2.6 to 3.0. Ouch.)
Well IMO, it wasn't that painful because... I guess about 85-90 % of 2.6 code can be run on 3.0. Yes, the concept of going from plain GUI to GUI w/ OOP was very different but the actual language itself has not change dramatically.
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