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>>>>>Instead what we have is a group of people fighting a war that was lost a couple of years ago engaged in a siege mentality.
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>>>>Yes, the death of VFP can be clearly traced all the way back to 1993. Thats 10 years of doomsaying. And VFP8 is here, and VFP9 to come. I suppose if one cannot predict accurately then one should predict often. Sooner or later you'll get it right.
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>>>The popularity of VFP is waning ; there are less and less monolithic VFP-only based apps in Ontario. I cannot speak for the rest of the world. However, based upon the number of high profile people doing less and less development in VFP (and not being replaced by others) it is not much of a logical leap to see what is going on in the rest of the North America.
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>>The horse is dead.
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>So I gather you are conceding this point?
>Some do not even acknowledge this fact.


That depends on the point. If your point is that VFP has fewer developers using it now then 10 years ago, yes. But that does not mean that VFP is dead by any means at all. And it does not mean that one should not develop applications in it. If it were so then there would be no new versions of it being developed, no more service packs, no more support, no more web site enhancements on MSDN for it, no more promotion within the VFP community, nothing, nada. (Please dont miss-construe these statements as excluding any other dev options).


The "horse" thats dead Dave, is not VFP but the repeated statements (yours included) about the demise of VFP. These statements have been offered as "pearls of wisdom" for the benefit of the VFP community for the last 10 years. You gotta be kidding. In that time we have had VFP3, VFP5, VFP6, VFP7, VFP8, and VFP9 announced for later this year.

There's being "ahead of the curve" and there's being "out there". By this measure of technology forecasting I could now claim, correctly, that .Net will be dead "before long". Better learn something else. I could repeat this every now and then on a regular basis. Factually my statement is true. Practically I would be wasting your time, at least probably for the foreseeable future. Eventually I will be right though. Damn I'm good - I was sooo ahead of the curve.