FW: fp Avg Developer/User age

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Almost brought a tear to my eye to hear talk of dBase -- I used dBaseIV on
SCO OpenServer for an IVR company I worked for in Philly......
Times have certainly changed haha


On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Scott Smith via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

>
> Name:  Scott Smith
> Brisbane, Australia
> Age:  47
> Since: started in 1985. (Yes is was 15 when I started using filepro)
> Started by when the family business had a software programmer living in a
> rental house. And in lieu of paying a couple months rent he wrote a very
> simple accounts software program. He gave a me a nerdy young kid at the
> time a crash course in filepro, and said here are the disks and code go
> have fun. By the looks of some of the code and parts that didn’t work or
> were left-overs from his previous client, auto smash repairers.  And to say
> that those first years were hard was an understatement, as we didn’t have
> the internet so getting help was very hard. It was like going cap in hand
> and going back to him saying ... can you please help me?  So, when the
> internet come on the scene, I remember first joining John Esak 's online
> chat room and finding this group email list. So over the years it has been
> a lifeline for fixing bugs and bouncing ideas.
>
> So, thank-you.
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+scott.filepro=
> aanet.com.au at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Jose Lerebours via
> Filepro-list
> Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2018 6:44 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: fp Avg Developer/User age
>
> So, is our community aging too fast or is there an uprise of new filePro
> developers we do not know about.
>
> Any idea on the average age of our community members?  I am about to hit
> 50 and I think I am one of the young birds!
>
> So, how old are you?
>
> Name: Jose Lerebours
> Age: will turn 50 on 01/31
> fp Vio: fp developer since 1989
>
>
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