>>"What are the top five most endangered developers?"
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>>http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00820010817adm01.htm&fromtm=e110
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>Clearly, the article is written tongue-in-cheek and is good for a laugh. But since there is some underlying seriousness to it, I feel it should be pointed out that the article labels dBase developers as endangered, citing the decline of DOS as the reason. FoxPro developers are mentioned as an exception, and IMO rightly so given VFP's ability to develop modern, n-tier, component-based applications. For that matter, the choice of dBase tables (or, more correctly, xBase) as the back-end data store is optional for the VFP developer. Today's VFP developer is a much more highly evolved creature than yesterday's FoxPro 2.x developer, and having adapted to the changing environment is therefore much less likely to find itself on an endangered species list any time soon.


Hey Rick,

How's the 'habitat' around the Champaign area? In Louisville there's not enough habitat for the species, niche or otherwise, to support a viable population anymore, much less procreate. I've seen no litter of kits around here since 1991.

And you're correct about the "highly evolved creature". But I remember sitting in a Stephen J. Gould lecture once in which he demostrated that 'evolving' is usually accompanied by greater complexity and vulnerability. (i.e. 'evolved' doesn't necessarily translate into successfull survival.)

What do you forsee for your population three years hense?

Steven-