George,

Ain't FUD a wonderful human emotion. Every once in awhile I wonder about those folks I saw protesting in meeting when VFP was first demonstrated.

"I don't like the idea of not being able to see the source code for the form. What happened to my .SPRs"
"This .DBC thing causes me more headaches then anything. I don't see any reason to use it"
"I ran the application generator and built a form. When I look at the Add button there's no code!!!! I'm going to stick to my FPW 2.6"

I'm doing things I could only pray about 6 yrs ago, such as automating Word to do mail merges. While those folks are sitting off in a corner maintaining old FP Dos apps. When these apps are finally replaced, what are they going to do?

One of the most important statements I've seen in the last couple days was JP's statement about this being a great point in time. As of this day we are all pretty much at the exact same point in our knowledge level on .NET. There's no reason why anyone, and I mean anyone can't go for the brass ring and study to become knowledgable first. I don't understand why someone wouldn't jump at the opportunity to learn what is sure to be a widely used product and be on the ground floor. I remember wayyyy back in '99 when SAP was extremely hot. If you knew SAP, any level, you were set. Why not take that opportunity with .Net.

PF


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>Oh sure. Here, however, I strongly sense that some of the underlying reasoning as to why learning another language would be terribly difficult was based pure and simply on FUD and not much more.