The "keep growing" comment really got to me too. I would have felt comfortable making that comment in 95, maybe early 96. But it's obvious with the comment that Ken Levy made some time ago....Something to the effect that "VFP will be marketed to existing VFP customers" what's going on. There's currently enough people purchasing VFP to enable MS to maintain a small development/support team (especially compared to .Net).

I remember reading Steve Bs comment about VFP not doing worse than other tools. First of all, if you have as small as market share as VFP does, a 20% decline in job postings hurts a heck of lot more than 20% in other languages. Second of all, I know from firsthand experience that some of the VFP decline was due to companies rewritting in other tools.

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>Keep VFP growing??? That implies there is current growth. Jim - EVERY aspect of the Fox world has been in a continuing decline for the past 7+ years. I challenged Steve himself to come up with one net positive trend in the Fox World. About the only thing I got was that the Fox World is not doing any worse than other tools. First - that was a crock of crap that was not supported by 1 iota of evidence and 2 - it never came close to meeting my challenge.
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>Jim - if you want to waste time in your efforts - be my guest. BUT - when it comes to others having to make a decision - and all they would have to go on is the 1 sided ramblings of people like yourself - then I have an obligation to provide balance to that discussion. And - when you decide to attack Ken for what is largely out of his control - then I'll do B-Slap you just like I did to the likes of Whil (AKA the head of the Raelian Fox to Linux Movement).
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>Now...instead of crying like an ill-tempered 2 year old who is not getting his way - be the logical critical thinker you claim to be an mount some counterpoints to what I have said. I understand it is a difficult task. But one thing is for sure - making the almost knee-jerk response that I do nothing more than setup and take down strawmen is total BS. To date, Mr. Sanders has not shown 1 single instance of me doing that - claims that is all I do nothwithstanding.
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>If you think your POV has more merit - then defend it. Otherwise - pull up your tent-stakes and move on. If you have a problem with what I am saying - then take it up with Michel. I have and am following the rules. I am doing nothing more than responding to your specific attacks against me - either direct or indirect. And - as long as you make claims and pronouncements - you should be prepared to defend those comments.
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>Happy new year...