>As a last point I would add that it can do things so much simpler – to give you one example; the table control (VFP grid) in WinDev is simply mind boggling. I mention this one because we use it so much. Unlike VFP you don’t need to connect it to some pre-existing table or query or memory cursor (although you can if you want to). You can instead just add data to the table control on the fly. And every column becomes sortable and filterable. And the column positions and widths and styles are automatically saved and stored for you. And it includes export to XLS, DOC, PDF, XML, email to someone, print, etc. without any coding. And powerful: you can add 100,000 rows x 30 columns to a table in +/-40 seconds. That’s 3 million cells and the resulting table is fully sortable and filterable and sub-filterable (i.e. apply a filter to an already filtered table, and again and again). (NB: This 40 seconds includes the time to read the data from disk based files using a SSD with 8Gb RAM, 64bit Windows 8, 2.4Ghz CPU).
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Another point of clarification - that 40 seconds includes reading the data from multiple separate data files, all of which are encrypted with 128 bit encryption, and performing some calculations on the data as well.