Perry,

>I would have to agree that "ignorant" is the key word here. I have many contacts that I met previously that were either FP developers with me, or doing other things in the IT dept. The people doing other things still worked closely enough with me to see what and how I was doing things.

>Many of these people moved onto VB, then .Net. None of these folks are complaining about anything in .Net. None. Not one. Nada.

Well, I've talked to a few VFP deveppers also doing .NET, and DID complain. IOW, what is your statement worth in general ?? None. Not one. Nada. It is a well given fact that there are areas where VFP is superiour and the other way arround. VFP still is much more data centric any way you put it.

>I have studied enough .Net, Java to know that many of the complaints people on this board make are easily overcome.

I'm not sure what complaint you are talking about, but I'm sure that as always where change is involved that there are other ways to do the same. However it must not come to the point where the workarround is ridiculous, slow, buggy etc. If I need to do SQL on local data (ADO.NET recordsets) I can't use SQL, I could workarround the issue, but with a lot more efforts, bugs, less readability than a VFP solution. Currently I'm developping a HL7 parser (which by definition should be a single entity, not a CS application) which heavily relies on local data is far easier to implement in a DATA centric language that in .NET.

>As Rick as stated, it's a matter of taking the time to develop your framework, so that you have classlibs built for the mundane tasks.

That is a rule for every development platform, even when I was doing C/C++, Pascal and FP2.x. But face it, a framework in itself does not get you an application. You still have to program a lot of application specific algorithms from scratch.

>At that point, there are no benefits to using Fox, unless you want to limit your career posibilities, continuously have to defend your choice of tools to potential customers, don't want your phone to ring with calls from recruiters.....

You're not honest here perry, first you say many of the complaints people on this board make are easily overcome. and now you say At that point, there are no benefits to using Fox, this seems rather contradictionary.

And don't forget we are not all independed consultants relying on the hype of the most sexy development platforms. I rely on a well designed product, and the ability to sell this product. Whether this product was made in VFP or .NET, it won't make the difference in selling a product. If I fail, it is not because I did stay with the FOX.


Walter,