>What lessons should one take from that?. . .

That nobody is writing about their VFP usage!

There have been a handful of Web articles published about VFP. If some
people would write them the magazines will publish them!

I know, since I've talked to the editors of MIND, which BTW is an
excellent magazine. FWIW, most of the content in that mag is C++
with a very high end focus.

+++ Rick ---