Perry,

>George,
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>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.
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>"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"

*ROF'L!!*

You had to be there... <g> BTW.. Did you happen to make the fisrt Database Summit in 1992?

Dr. Dave really 'stuck' it to the Paradox folks there... <g> Talk about being given a dose of pain, wrapped up in change. <g>

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>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?

Retire?


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>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.

Indeed.


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>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.