Thomas,
I completely agree that some developers over-used tables/cursors because it was so basic. But for those of us who came from the days when FP allowed only 25 open at once, followed by 250 and change, parsimony was the norm.
I'm not wed to VFP; indeed I've taken more chances than most- I "saw the writing on the wall" and moved to Java too early in 1997, then spent considerable sums investigating NET as it kept changing from shortly after the first beta. Of course I'll look at Linq when it appears, but I won't make a change for the sake of it. If VFP remains the best tool I'll lock it into an XP box with Linux in front of it for security and interfacing with whatever new Esperanto the geniuses come up with next. Life is too short to keep doing the same thing over and over. ;-)
"... 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
