It is because I know what a good product VFP is that if I were a customer of myself, I would want the best database tool out there; Visual FoxPro is THE BEST database development tool on the market, bar none.

VB? Ha! VB.NET stinks. It can't hold a candle to VFP's data handling. And all that ugly VB 6.0 style coding is still there in the new and improved VB.NET. Man, if I had to look at VB code all day, I think I would barf (vomitar)!!!

No me gusta el idioma de VB de ninguna manera. VIVA FoxPro para siempre!!!

Yes, I am emotioanlly attached to Visual FoxPro. When it first came out, or let's say when I was first aware of it, FoxPro, I was looking at FoxPro 1.02 or 1.2 for DOS. I could not believe how much it could do even then. When FPDOS 2.0 came out, I was so astounded that any company could do better than Ashton Tate's DBASE III Plus (except for Clipper of course). FoxPro for Windows came out, I think as version 2.5, 2.6, and then 2.6a. It was a great tool even then, although we had some issues with Windows 95 blowing up once in a while on some machines with strange errors. In the meantime, VB had a cool look, but it was still ugly code; it hasn't changed; it is still an ugly code. I really cannot stand to look at anything that says "SUB" for subroutine. FUNCTION and PROCEDURE work just fine.

Then came VFP as version 3.0, which admittedly was slow, but moved us into true Object Oriented Programming technology; even VB wasn't quite there. We somehow got past a non-existent version of 4.0, which some non-Foxers will never know about (try that during an interview; ask them how they liked Version 4.0 of VFP.) From VFP 5.0 through 9.0 we have seen great progression, improvements and how can you beat that? And there WILL BE another version of VFP after 9.0. It is happening even as we speak. Everyone thought VFP was dead, especially some silly technical writer several years ago and here we still are making a living using this great product. [I'll bet that writer was a VB programmer in his previous life.]

VB? Ha, it is still as ugly a duck as it ever was back in its beginning days. I don't know why Bill Gates keeps it around. He should have canned Visual Basic a long time ago and put Visual FoxPro in its place as the database development tool of choice, since it is THE BEST!!!

Okay, perhaps I shouldn't have had that chocolate cake a little while ago, because maybe it is what caused me to write this crazy diatribe.

Humbly, I present this diatribe to our wise VFP developers and repentant Visual Basic programmers...Je vais tres bien avec Visual FoxPro.