Gary,
Here is Jeff Pace's original challenge:
... I can develop a distributed, smart-client, database application (SQL Server, of cource) using VFP9 which will be faster, more scalable, more reliable, more robust, easier to maintain, and in less time than the same application developed in .NET using either C# or VB.
"... 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
