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>I also think that every 12 year old script-kiddie thinks they're a VB programmer and that overall the professionalism among VFP programmers is higher.
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>This is the type of arrogance that will the the downfall of many VFP developers. It is interesting that one could conclude that the choice of tool is dispositive of th elevel of professionalism.

I don't see arrogance here. Don't you agree that the easier the development language the more it'll attract self-made pseudo pretending professional developers. VB is a derivation of QuickBasic or if you prefer GW-Basic. Heck Basic even came with the first PCs. So to me it's not arrogance to say that we see more VB script kiddies than Assembler Script kiddies for example <vbg>

>Here is what I see - many VFP developers whining and crying over the lack of marketing. That is not very professional in my book. Also, many VFP developers are emotionally tied to the product and the communty - as if it were their personal coffee clatch. That is not very professional either.


ROFLMAO

What is more professional a whining VFP developer or a .Net developer that
insults as fast as he can developers that contredicts him?


>It is a myth to think that overall - the quality and professionalism in the VFP world is higher than in other communities - including the VB community.
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>Finally, most of the people that make this claim - if they would hold their work up to public scrutiny - it would likely not pass muster.

I'd agree with this because of the following points. If you decide to use VB it's because you want to make an application. Any kind of application. If you use VFP it's also because you want to make an application but on top of that there's a big possibility that you'll use VFP because you want to make a data-centric application.

With data-centric development comes the notions of data-base development and normal forms, referential integrity...

So I'd think that a more specialised development environment should attract more competent developers.

I agree with you that this could be a myth but how do you prove that?