>Your point about your experience (mine is quite similar) does bring up an overlooked fact. Those of us who came into VFP knowing the structured programming paradigm had an advantage over those who did not. This is because they many of the same principles (in fact, I'll argue 'til I'm blue in the face that OOP grew out of structured programming) and goals. This knowledge that we brought with definitely eased the transition considerably.
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I read a magazine article where the "father of Pascal" said that one must have a good understanding of procedural programming to produce effective OOP code. I wish I could remember the article...