I think the intensity of the "boredom" is ample evidence of the insecurity underlying it. < s > People are scared and they act it.

To me, the Fox community is a lot more about community than it is about Fox. Many of these folks have been my friends for a dozen or more years. If one of them develops some kind of language Tourette's and keeps babbling foxsucksfoxsucksfoxsucks over and over he will still be my friend. If he happens to be somebody I *know* knows what he's talking about I will never tire of listening to what he has to say and will extract from the babble whatever I can that will make me money. And I won't be overly worried that his heresy will somehow poison the minds of those who may be impressionable. If they don't have the sense to work things out for themselves, whatever the right choice is for them, then they probably won't be very successful anyway.

I think there is a major problem in that people do not distinguish between Fox as a tool and Fox as a marketable skill. If you want to get a job, Fox is definitely not the best way to go. If you develop the kind of stuff I've been developing for the last dozen years and will probably continue to develop for at least a dozen more it is pretty much ideal.

But I am very glad I don't depend on getting a job to make a living. If a 21 year old person came to you right now and said, "I'd like to get a job as a programmer. What language should I learn?" could you in good conscience recommend Foxpro as a first choice?


>>>I find it amusing that so many people seem so threatened by what is just empirically good advice.
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>OK, can you give me a few sample people or message id#s where people act threatened rather than bored?