>I'll put it to you Bill, what exactly is King saying here? <

For starters, you'd have to ask Mr. King for that, not me. To address the general thrust of your question, here's the sentence prior to the VFP mention...

"(.Net) Object code and runtime compilers provide standardization, consistency, easier distribution and maintenance, security, and portability. The approach also tends to homogenize features, limit specialization, and suffer from suboptimal performance. For general application development, these trade-offs may not be significant."

>> Intresting how he mentions Fox but at the same time, never really endorses the use of Fox. <<

Not really. The article is about .Net, not VFP. He uses VFP as an example to make a point about other development environments. To endorse or not to endorse is not relevant to the article.

>> At best, he uses Fox as a metaphor for shops that may need to think outside the box. <<

Fair enough...

>> Of course, in his paragraph, he immediately downplays the downsides of .NET anyway, rendering the rest of the paragraph moot...<<

Huh?

>> Would you say his analysis has the quality of his Fox book? <<

First off, I believe he has more than one. Secondly, it's not relevant.

> I love folks who say "C# is the language and that it was specifcally designed for .NET...". Folks that attempt to pit one language against another completely miss the point. To those folks ,it is not the language stupid!! It is about the framework and what you can do with the framework. The language is secondary. <

...except Mr. King didn't pit one language against another. Quoting the article, he writes "In fact, at the moment a consensus seems to be forming that most VB and C++ programmers should consider learning and using C#." He is clearly stating a ** general ** consensus, not a personal opinion.

>The analytical cohesiveness of this article is on par (or 3 strokes above par as is the case here) with his Fox book....<

Well, you're entitled to your opinion, no issue there. My "take" would be that you seem to get a fair amount of exercise from jumping to conclusions, but I digress...

Bill Anderson