On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Virgil Bierschwale <vbiersch@ktc.com> wrote:

> Couldn't agree more with ed here.

>

> I recently had the opportunity to do some .net work and it wasn't that

> difficult once you found a source to answer a few questions and pinter.com

> has a nice book on vfp to .net, but as ed said, most of the people I've seen

> doing it don't have a combined 1 year experience between all of them and

> when you mention things like a switch or whatever, they look at you like

> you're from china or india and speaking of india or china, have you ever

> looked at the billed rates on some of those short term project boards

> (forget the name of them at the moment), but we're talking a few dollars per

> hour.

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Bull shit. Flat out lies here. So far from the truth.

There are a lot of companies that hire only top talent in programming.

No version of language here they are pros who are leading the team(s)

and they know they only want quality people. I know because last year

I was out looking.

There are thousands of gigs within the VS/.NET world that young

"freshers" are not working and could never get in. They have

experienced programmers that are very talented in writing .NET code.

Sorry but you VFPers who think you can jump over, it is NOT EASY to

switch your mindset to work with a different tool even if the IDE

looks similar.

Is there work? Well I see 2780 job posting here <http://durl.me/c8bw>

and that is just C#. Python has 659 <http://durl.me/c8cz>

Both are postings across the USA.

Now back to Ed's statement that you have to learn something new for

this decade. I have to agree 100%. Or are you going to retire when

the available work dries up?

> But the biggest thing that bothers me with .net is that it is more about

> learning their framework then it is about developing solutions, which is

> fine, but what happens when their next whizbang widget generator framework

> comes out?

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Yes you have to learn HOW to do what you want to do. If you were to

work in java, python, or ruby you have to learn how to work with

collections, streamwriters, reading xml, testing. You will have to

learn about delegates, interfaces, etc and when to use them. There is

no easy fix except to learn it. That is why these young kids fresh

out of school are good because this is all they know. They have very

little experience in making an app. Requirements gathering and seeing

the final product. But when it comes to the academics of the language

they are in their prime.

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