>>>>I have to look everything up and search for examples while I can work with data in VFP practically with my eyes closed because I've been using VFP since the mid 80s. When I want to do something in a dataset there are lots of built-in methods to operate on it.
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>>>What? Is VFP already exists in the mid 80's?
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>>AFAIK Foxbase Plus was released in 1984. I believe I still have a set of the installation diskettes.
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>FoxBase was 1984, FoxBase+ was 1986.

See http://www.foxprohistory.org/foxprotimeline.htm