Well, I appreciate what you're saying, but who were you really responding to? I guess you cc:ed me on this, but I can't even see who the original poster was or what he/she said.

>Then there are old fuds like me who look at any new language and say YACL. I have programmed in so many that picking up a new one is almost a habit.
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>But, VFP and its ease of program code organization (not dumping every code "snippet" in one big "code thing" for the whole screen (with two sets of tabs, 6 grids, 30 buttons, and many fields) has made my job an order of magnitude easier than it ever was in any other environment.
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>And as far as that "poor design" screen that obviously is "too complicated"
>it isn't too complicated to the users who live on it and on the phone. It orgnizes everyting on a client in one easily tabbed spot. Progressing through a call with a client is just going from one tab to the next. No poping up of scads of windows and ...
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>With one client on hold and the second one on line the second instance of the screen allows the phone rep to pop right back to where he was when he takes the first one off hold!
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>Yes that screen cost the client $50K in a $500,000 aplication. And yes 100 phone reps making $10-$15 an hour burn a lot more money in a big hurry when
>you add in the cost of a place to sit, a comuter (forget the software) lights, phone lines, T3 lineS and all their hourly cost of operation is about $5,000 an hour! Make an effeciency in that with a well designed screen that saves 10 man hours per rep per year and what did you pay for? (*And that screen allows them to work with about 30 fewer reps than other schemes did). So it only saves them about $1,500 an HOUR.
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>VFP was and is the greatest tool I have ever used in all of the 20+ languages I have used since I did my first Fortran program on a 360 when I was 17 ....
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>If I ever invest as many years and effort in a tool again, it will be OPEN SOURCE!