More popular is not a good reason. It's like saying you'll buy a car from a particular manufacturer because they sell more cars than other automakers.

VB 6 is not a good choice. It is truely a dead language. There is no more development happening on it from Microsoft.


>We have some difficlut choice of migration from legacy foxpro application. Some of our clients wants to rebuild thier application which made in Dos environment. Of course these applications already built with Fox2.X Dos. I strongly recommand remaking the applaction with VFP windows version. It is very convenient and easy to migrate into window environment with VFP as a rebuilding tool.
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>But our clients is considering of VB as a reconstructing tool. The reason is very simple. VB is more popular than VFP. Well, What is the best way to dissuade from keeping this consideration? And I would like to have some benchmarking informations about compared VFP and VB.
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>Thanks,
>Stephen Chi