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>Interesting - but hardly surprising. I have long said that for all its power - VFP itself does more harm than good when it comes to the development of the developer. If Fox is what one first learned or all that one knows - chances are good that the developer's developer is stunted and crippled. It is not permanent by any means - but it is a hard cycle to break free from - particularly in the data-arena.

I'm stunned! Speechless.


>This by the way is the reason in large part - that I have long rejected the notion that good VFP developers necessarily translates into being a good developer in general.

Good "any language" developers dont necessarily translate into being good developers in general.


>A good developer's skill sets IMO - are language/tool agnostic. A good developer can suceed in ANY tool. This is but one reason why good developers are orders of magnitude better than those that occupy the middle regions of the bell curve.

Agreed, but...

The format of this argument/post is to first state something that is ambiguous and wishy-washy and then follow up with a perfectly reasonable statement leaving the reader with the impression that the entire post was reasonable. I believe it’s called the Cinderella effect.

The converse technique that is also heavily used is to first make a few factually correct statements, lulling the reader into a positive and agreeable frame of mind, and then follow up with opinion and conjecture again leaving the reader with the impression that all points were valid.

Interesting.