>>I still feel that the arguments are 2-sided, yes JVP has a strong opinion and makes it known but I still find people in here presenting outright challenges to compare VFP with whatever language is in discussion at the time - that to me is boring in itself, especially for 2 totally different languages.
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>>Why can anything else not be better than VFP? Why does everyone feel the need to compare?
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>>Why do people still not get that VFP & .Net are different beasts? VFP has one way of doing something, just as another language has its own way of doing things.
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>>The whole issue is a joke IMO, and I still can't understand why everyone feels they have to defend VFP as if their lives depended on it, seems to me that this form of defense can only come from in-security, and JVP seems to be the best person at touching that particular nerve.
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>Dude, I've been known on occasion to contradict myself but your entire statement above is complete hypocrisy - see Side by side comparison (strings & local data) Thread #861648 Message #861648

Yes I know, I've used .Net a lot more since then, and can safely say you are right, but I've learned from that mistake.

Kev