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>The other reason is that in most other programming languages, arrays are your handy data storage - VFP has better means of handling that, with its cursors that you can create in several ways and (ab)use in many more ways.

This one I can't agree.
In fact, array is always a handy data storage... it is just that VFP does not architect it correctly (or in a perfect way) and lacks many functions to manipulate array,
My question is if "VFP has better means of handling", then why so many VFP functions returns result as array?