>>What is a suitable replacement for VFP to learn. Certainly not VB or Access. I don't want to learn C. Delphi seems to be waning in popularity. So where do we go if VFP goes? Currently I'm learning PHP with mysql. It seems to me that they are unlikely to go because they are open source and not tied to the whims of any companies' marketing department.
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>Yeah, there's a lot more offerings for PHP/MySQL than VB/SQL.
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>Not! (yet anyways)
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>What about Java or .NET (pick your flavor)? We'll all be forced to learn J2EE or .NET eventually.

The following "Visual" products (in the sense the Visual C++ is visual) were announced a couple of days ago. They are Windows IDE's for Python, Perl, XSLT and TCL...
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN
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