>I would not have felt the same about missing 4-5 months between VFP 3 and VFP 5
>because there was not the same (apparently) leap in user features and
>development productivity

I saw VFP5 demoed at a user group meeting a month or two before it came out.

Debugger.
BoundTo.
DODEFAULT().

You know how much code I was able to rewrite because of those last two functions? I had to keep writing code using the scope resolution operator, and hacking my combos to work with integer foreign keys, because that was all I had to work with. So what if the beta-testers could update their code? I couldn't, because I wasn't. Period.