>> There are a lot of good examples shipped with the product, and I would say complete examples with explanations, which to me are enough tools to really understand the intricacies of the language.

This is also nonsense. VFP contains several hundred commands and functions.

The samples are composed of "applets", little things that simply illustrate a few things each. Unfortunately, we aren't writing little "applets" when we develop applications. The sample application that ships with VFP, TasTrade, is a pathetic example, possibly the worst example of class design, OOP, and architecture that one could imagine.

To say that the VFP samples are a sufficient set of examples to get someone profitably developing is wrong. The proof of that is the framework mini-industry that has emerged to correct the problem.