Jim,

As a developer, this is the catch-22 for me. Obviously, I am doing this because it pays the bills. But I feel happy at the end of the day when I was able to solve a narly problem, or learned something new. i read a quote once from another programmer saying that a good day for him was a day he learned something.

When I've participated in the environments you're mentioning for VFP, it's been frustrating. There is absolutely no learning. The owner is only interested in maintaining the status quo. In some cases that also includes maintaining a coding style based in Fox2.6.

I think the main reason why everyone in the group I'm in is willing to jump on Java, is not to get out of VFP. But because our current working environment is one of the best I've seen in a long time. So as a group we are doing what we can to prolong staying in this environment.

PF


>That's the kind of opportunity I see for VFP developers, unfortunately some of these situations may call for "creative relationships", like joint ventures, since most aren't going to be able to afford large re-development expenditures.
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>Jim Eddins
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