>I fooled around with Pascal and C in the mid-eighties, but I have yet to be exposed to a tool that can deliver user-productive modules as quickly, easily and solidly as FoxPro. I might add that I have never heard of a development community that collaborates and supports each other the way that the FoxPro community does.

Just when I wanted to say something about the language's greatest quality was the kind of people it attracts, your next sentence was

> I think it says something about the language that it attracts people like you, Menachem.

...where I could only add that I generally meant all the UTers. Besides, the moment when I've got the picture of OOP and inheritance and encapsulation etc was when I've read Menachem's article, I think it was one of the MSDN CDs back in '95, about subclassing a light switch. All the tiles went to their places at once.