John,
>>but in the end, just as efficient.
That's the trouble. The above isn't always true. I've spent a decade working on a particular effort that munges simply vast amounts of data, most of which is static. We experimented with server-side work, with ADO.NET and all the rest of it ... VFP still reigns supreme for heavy munging.
If you don't do heavy munging, it doesn't matter. But IMHO the sort of stuff I'm doing will be very ordinary within a few years.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
