>>And what does a modern development tool look like? VS2005? It looks cool, but it sux trying to do the simplest tasks. Why does it take 90-200 seconds for the help file to come up when I hit F1? Or why is it that when I double click on a .H file in Windows explorer it takes 5 mins for VS2005 to display it?
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>Because Fox's help file has a small command set; .net has 14,000 classes with 75,000 methods which would by definition take longer to load. The VS2005 editor can handle multiple languages and multiple development platforms. Edit and compile a c++, c# and VB file in the same project.. try that with he fox editor!
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>Modern editors are going to be platforms that make programming easier which VS2005 does by leaps and bounds over the fox editor.

I agree with you on both of these points. However, I think the delays in the interface of newer development tools are unneccesary and unacceptable. I love the IDE enhancements in VS2005 compared to other tools. But why do simple tasks take soooooooo long? My screen is tired of being told: "Wake up?"

I switch to FoxPro from C++ back in 1992 because I could get stuff done faster. Not because FoxPro was more powerful than C++ or had more classes or methods. But because I was more productive using FoxPro.

My original response was not about VFP vs. .NET. I think that is a pointless debate. I just disagreed with the post that VFP will be useless after 2012 because of its older IDE, when I think that modern IDEs are unnessecarily slow. I also believe that VFP will be capable of solving business problems long past 2012.