>To your co-worker, Delphi is a more powerful langauge - because he knows Delphi. Does he know VFP, or VB for that matter? The point is that whether a toolset is powerful or not depends upon both your frame of reference and the feature set of the language.

I can rememeber waaayyy back when EDLIN was the editor of choice, until we finally got EDIT! You're right; power depends on one's own perception. It's difficult (and unnecessary) to make conclusions about something we know little about.

Michael Reynolds