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>>>>Thank you for your constructive comments!
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>>>>As I have said, I am not absolutely against frameworks. Since The Entire Foxpro Community considered you as one of the Most Outstanding, Brilliant, and one of the Most Respected Programmer, I would like to ask you a simple question:
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>>>>Do you think you are at your level now if you just work if not depend on Frameworks and not concentrated on knowing the Deepest ‘Things’ of Foxpro or any language you are using? Or, did you start Programming using Frameworks?
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>>>>Just to emphasize my point, IMHO, using frameworks and confined into it (not all) is more on fasterrrrr $ thing (savings and earnings). Using them really offers a lot of advantages if developing an End-User application. But to maximize the potential of a serious programmer/developer (i.e. knowing the in and outs of VFP Language, its intricacies, etc.) in a long term basis, it helps but a little, because you have to re-study everything until such a time found yourself backed again to BASICS. It is easy for the readers to memorize good AXIOMS written in English but the person, who wrote it, started from the English BASICS.
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>>>>Thank you
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>>>Jess,
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>>>Just to tell to you to hang in there.
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>>>My impression, but have not gone very far into the details of frameworks, is that they give you a lot of "nice to haves", that in my case were totally unnecessary, and that the learning curve added to the VFP leaning curve. So if you are going to use a framework, as a "beginner", you might miss the some important points of VFP, and be better advised to go VB or PB. The money is better there ;.. Barabara used frameworks in teamwork and there I would absolutely introduce them, for the reasons she stated: standards.
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>>>My 2 BEF.
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>>>Marc
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>Sorry for the empty message prior to this one, I just clicked 'send' button too soon. But thank for your comments, I can now say I am not alone.

You are absolutely not alone and I agree with your insights.