>>Those are great images! The SL Chamber of Commerce would be proud. Kool site.
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>>Never been there (except to change planes - or was that Kansas City?). The images are a lot more appetizing than I imagined the city to be.
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>Dear Terry Thurber,
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>Could you clarify about SL Chamber of Commerce? Is it a joke?

Yes - it is a pun: In Houston we say "We are having Chamber of Commerce day", especially when we are upstream of the ozone plume. It jests that the weather should be used by the Houston Chamber of Commerce to garner tourist trade (to sell others on visiting the city). The images on your site were made me want to visit St. Louis - therefore the SL Chamber of Commerce would be pleased!

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>I understand, that I am a little bit naive :) but what I could see in the US were impressed me very much (especially very friendly and helpful people). But the strongest impression - I could see FoxPro programs everywhere but nobody developed them! When I asked why? Many of developers said - it obsolete tool or FoxPro is very complicated software for developers. For me it was a very strange.

The US went through an internet infra-stucture buildout. Lots of fresh from school VB IT types were hired. The bad rap came from two sources: VB developers building HTML interfaces that knew very little about process applications and fake FoxPro consultants (con-artists) that were taking money but not delivering. Over zealous grid solutions maybe a problem also. Things are changing - VB is ancient history and prospects are wiser in determining the skill and expertise of potential consultants. It might be useful to point out that a lot of VB apps sucked wind!

FoxPro can do anything. I have called into shops offering jobs to C programmers and ended up with a contract to do the project in foxpro.