>To all who shall see my countenance greetings.
>The travel to the FoxPro world has indeed been long and treacherous. Filled with expectations and pitfalls but indeed we have survived the test of time. At the dawn of the visual age and the close of the ice age we programmers persisted to ensure that the great gods of M$ would change their hearts and join us in making Fox the only language for the ppl of DataWorld. Alas we shall prevail. There will be a VFP 5.5 and a 6.0 . But harken to your values and remain constantly vigilant as M$ will support VFP only to the value of the underlying profits therein.
> I have emerged from the ICE AGE of FPW to enthrown VFP as king of my product lines. Those who doubt my loyalty will be cursed to program in the hereto after unmentionable VdBase and Delphi.
> I remain unscathed by you comments on my countenance and welcome your continued FLAMING.

Sorry, I can't share Michel's excitement over your message, simply
because 'VdBase and Delphi' didn't deserve such harsh representation :)
I think VFP has a long way to go to truely compete with Delphi or C++
in robustness simply because it WAS written in C++ (and assembly of
course), and Delphi (Object Pascal) is something that Windows programming
started from (BTW, the OVERWHELMING majority of programmers in the world
know Pascal first, and then whatever might follow :) And speaking about
'VdBase', it in fact has a lot of features that are yet to be clarified
and debugged in VFP!

Please don't take it as FLAMING :), as some of us have! It's just an
observation! And, though paradoxical, but I am also from FP ice age,
starting from 2.0 when it was NOT the property of 'gods' from MS. In fact,
I like the good old FoxPro 2.0 very much and still keep the original
Language Reference on my shelf as a souvenir (spelling?? don't keep the
dictionary handy though :) from the late Fox Holdings, Inc. :)