>My favourite was Clipper back in th 80's , the Fox until a couple of years ago (still use it but less so now ) now it's C# by a country mile - Did a lot of Cobol way back - the thought of using it now makes me feel ill...

Twin sons of different mothers ;-)

Actually I was not so crazy about Clipper. I worked with it only briefly, supporting a legacy app my company had developed for A.C. Nielsen. It was called Xbase but seemed to have been written by frustrated C guys.