Tristan Leask wrote: > Well it's a Friday morning and the guys in the office are chatting about > life after VFP. I was wondering what languages people are considering > to EXPAND to as part of their dev work?
There are two schools of thought here. The first is to be an expert in a language, and when the call comes for help in that language, you hold up your hand and yell, "Pick me! Pick me!" The other is to be a domain expert (auto parts, insurance, factory automation, pet store inventory...) and develop 'solutions' for that domain. The tool(s) you use are (mostly) irrelevant. I've always been a door #1 kind of guy, fortunate that I can pick up specific domain knowledge quickly and effectively. I like it because it's really interesting; on the factory floor with the Archie Bunkers and Homer Simpsons one day, in the bank's currency exchange back office with the vapid young pretties the next. Lot of variety. _MY_ plan (as I've stated in public many a time, although a few disgruntled folks have chosen to selectively edit what I've said to suit their own means) is to maintain VFP for years, but not to invest in it. Rather, spend spare R&D time in a _growing_ market opportunity. LAMP is the way to go as far as I'm concerned. I see MSFT's attitude and approach being a losing game. They're nasty and don't offer good value (anyone out there feel that a Vista upgrade is money well-spent?) The reason they're still making money is because people don't have much of a choice. LAMP offers opportunity and freedom... oh, enough of that soapbox. What's really compelling about the 'AMP' part is that it's cross platform. MySQL, PHP and Python (and Apache, actually) all run on multiple platforms, which is nice, since suddenly your skills are xferrable. I'm certain I'll be selling VFP books and doing VFP maintenance in 2020, but I don't see a big benefit in becoming a Sedna expert. Maintenance means remembering ON KEY LABEL, not MSFT's du-jour incarnation of COM, some obscure hook between VFP and something else no one ever used outside of the VFP test labs, or whatever nonsense they claim to be "the most secure operating system we've ever shipped". Having been burned multiple times, proprietary scares me. Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** 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.
