>This paragraph sums it up from a marketing point of view:
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>"But unfortunately, I also think that those languages, for whatever reasons, never got accepted as mainstream programming languages, largely. They lacked some capabilities that programmers, generally speaking, want."
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I found it interesting, Perry, that you chose that quotation from the article.
When I read that I wondered just what the lacking capabilities were "that programmers, generally speaking, want.".

Could he mean things like callbacks or creating OCXs or structures?
I'm not at all sure what those missing things might be, but it looks like they have little to do with "data". And it seems we get quite a bit done without them.

More to the point, though, I wonder if he really knows what VFP can do or even if he understands that business runs on data?
Seems legitimate to say that '.NET mad many other programming languages lack some capabilities that business programmers, generally speaking, want.".