On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Paul H. Tarver <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve been using FoxPro since the DOS days, so exactly when will I stop > feeling like an amateur? :) >
"Amateur" comes from Latin roots, "from the heart" as in "doing it for the love of it" vs. getting paid to do it. It has come to mean the opposite of "professional" which I think is a shame: it would be good to do things in a workmanlike, ethical manner, while it provides joy to your heart. I hope you never lose that. During the development of the "Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications with Microsoft® Visual FoxPro® 6.0" exam #155, a very well-known developer on the Fox team reviewed the questions we had developed, and there was an argument over whether CTOBIN() was an actual function in VFP, because they had never heard of it. It never stops. Fifteen years out from my last serious, full-time development project in FoxPro, I've worked in a couple of different languages, and yet when I come back to Fox I see some of the functions in a new light, and can find different ways to use them. The art of craftsmanship is recognizing you can always improve. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4sa6z5tgck6rkqogptuhnsot+wntcutowjjb7nxm_z...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
