>>DataFlex ... now there's a name I haven't heard in about twenty years. I remember it used to be Pascal-like.
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>Dear old DataFlex. Slow is not the word. I did some apps in DataFlex begining in 1992. I suggested to one customer we redo an existing app in VFP, about ten years ago. They agreed and could not believe the speed difference.

Thomas,

DataFlex STILL has DOS and Unix versions. There is a pretty good review of the Visual Dataflex at http://www.osnews.com/story/6777/Development:_Visual_Dataflex_the_way_to_go_

The following paragraph pretty much tells me (personally) to stay away from this product (I have battled rigid frameworks AND lost too many times to take on something like this again):

Data Access has taken a lot of care to provide you with a large foundation at which to build your programs and with these simple clicks your entire relation updates across tables are taken care of. Transparently. Within little time you'll have the code to produce reports which use the internal report engine or the interface to Crystal Reports (which off course is available separately). Sadly enough, when your program becomes too non-standard in relation to the foundation provided for you, one starts getting into trouble. At this point the foundation will start to work against you and quite heavily too. It's not designed to be flexible, it is designed to do what it was designed for easily and rapidly. And this it does.

Cheers,