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Hi Fred, thanks for the reply.<br>
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I have already contacted old clients (those that are still in
business), but unfortunately they have either gone the 'off the
shelf' route (ie. don't use bespoke software any more), or
moved-over to .NET, which is a route which I don't want to follow.
Still, at least I've let them know what I am doing now and you never
know where word-of-mouth may lead. I tried C# for a while, but
after Foxpro it appeared to me to be such a horrible, clunky
language. Then I discovered Python about a year ago and have loved
it ever since. <br>
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Regards,<br>
Alan<br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">On 17/01/2011 16:13, Sells, Fred wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Since you were burned by Microsoft dropping foxpro, I suspect many
others were also. I would contact all my old clients and see how they
are coping and tell them you've been converting FoxPro to *xyz* and can
help them (assuming of course that you have done some of this). If they
don't have anything, ask them for leads contacts.
Trying to get a job "cold" is much more difficult than if you have a
referral.
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