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>>>I have trouble understanding the resistance here on this board.
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>>It is actually quite simple...VFP is the langauge many here like, use, and most importantly, depend upon. The knowledge of programming of some here is so locked into VFP that to think of a world sans VFP is unthinkable. I believe that many hoped (and prayed) that things would be different. This all was foreseeable as far back as October of 1993. By 1995 - it was pretty certain where MS was going - and it was not going to be Fox.
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>Sorry but I feel compelled to jump in again, if for no other reason than to put forward "the other side of the coin".
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>I simply do not see the unreasonable or irrational "resistance" you refer to in this forum. What I see are people eager to continue to use a tool that they have become proficient in. This is perfectly normal, particularly in a forum specifically for this tool, and happens in all human endeavours.
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>I dont see fanatic denial of the changes that are happening around the IT world at all. I have not read any posts here stating that someone refuses to learn new tools or technologies, that VFP is the only tool, that all other tools are worse, that VFP is the be all and end all, or any other statements to that effect. Where are these statements? I do see people defend their use of VFP, sure, and try to explain why they use it. So what? What do you expect to read here??
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>What also surprises me is that if the demise of VFP could so clearly be seen since 1993 thats 10 years of very productive (and profitable) development time that I have had. Thank God I did'nt listen to the doomsayers back then, particularly the VB crowd. And now I have at least 7 more years of guaranteed MS support for VFP and perhaps even more when VFP9 comes out. And even then the product would not be dead since one could presumably still develop systems with it. And, at the same time, I can learn other tools and technologies too.
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>27!

Wait! It just finally came to me! VFP is too powerful! It is The One Ring of the programming languages and therefore must be destroyed!
Everyone! To Mordor!

13!

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