I really don't feel much like arguing eitherI'm perfectly willing to argue the points I actually made.
I always thought the "challenge" was silly and myopicI thought Rod wanted a dispassionate comparison. My point was that the selected task bypassed VFP's defining benefit. Why would you do that? I also commented on the local data exclusion, asking whether we've gotten caught up in our own FUD about local datasets when millions of successful businesses entrust their accounts to proprietary file storage. I'm perfectly happy to discuss these on-topic points.
"... 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
