>>I hope you didn't take my comment the wrong way, as a criticism of you. It wasn't. It was a criticism at the sometime inscrutability of the FoxPro language -- SYSMETRIC() this, SYS() that
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>Hey, it was a great ride. Many sys() functions have become real functions over time, or, conversely, many great functions that we have have started out as almost anonymous sys() calls. In which case, Real Programmers Use Sys Calls Regardless :).

Real programmers write their own FLL in assembly. :)