Fernando,

My goal is not to posture for MS at any level. I'm simply giving what I believe to be a very practical example that contributes to this thread. It's as much a disservice to only present a positive image of Foxpro as it would be only to present a negative one. Would I encourage anyone to start using Foxpro as their primary development language? No. Do I believe that it is a valuable tool that has basically supported me for the past 13 years? Yes. It is a great language and tool, but it is not the future and unfortunately for some of us the future matters a great deal.

>Hi Jay,
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>That's ok, but could you tell me what would you do IF you were from MS and put your ears to listen those words about the doom of VFP comming *from* members of VFP community? Would you keep implementing new versions of it?
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>All we must pray for is that MS don't take their decisions based on what some people say about VFP (fortunatelly it seems to me they don't).
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>We *all* should promote VFP as hardly as we can and not bash over it and/or those developers that have it as their tool of choice.
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>Regards,
>
>Fernando
>
>>Walter,
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>>I don't always see eye-to-eye with John, but to me it's as simple as doing a search for Foxpro positions in the US compared to other languages. I was out of work for over a year. It was definately a bad time for all of the IT market, but if I had had experience in VB I would have had offers. Because my background has been almost exclusively Foxpro I ended up doing home repair for that year. I'm not saying Foxpro is dead, but you can't argue with the practical facts faced when trying to find work.
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>>Renoir
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>>>John,
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>>>>A few things to keep in mind. Take with a grain of salt ANYBODY who says that things are great or that Fox is "no worse off" than other technologies. This is pure BS and in effect - represents nothing more than the personal agenda of some for wishful thinking.
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>>>Please. provide us with facts. Why should we take your words for granted as you proved not to have any knowledge in this area. You consistently are trying to play your game of VFP is dead. Your behaviour of telling lies is very harmfull to the VFP community. You consistently have proved not knowing what you're talking about in about all areas of software development. You don't provide any examples or prove and avoid issues where your knowledge can be measured.
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>>>Fact is John, YOU'RE A FAKE. You know very little about software developement and the world arround you. You only like to hear yourself talking. It would not surprise me if you lawyer training is just a distraction again. I doubt if you'll ever be one. Just face it, you don't have the what it takes to be a software developer GURU and never will be. You simply don't understand the world arround you. You try to mask this with all kinds of assumptions and false statements. You're just a parasite from the VB world. Go back and let this become a peacefull place again