>People have always speculated why Microsoft got rid of VFP. I'll tell you exactly why it was: It was too powerful, too small, too fast, was too free (royalty-free runtime), and had too much extensibility to be set alongside their fee-based tools to be of any monetary value to them. They killed it because it would've made their other tools look bad, and now all we have are their other offerings.
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FoxPro was a fantastic tool.

At the end of 1989/early 1990 I won an award from the Dept of Agriculture for a database app I did in Fox.

I was 24. I was certainly a decent developer, but really did not deserve the accolades I received. The truth is, Fox was one heck of a tool.

FoxPro, Turbo-C, and CodeBase (from Sequitur) were my first loves. You never forget your first loves.

But beyond that, the SQL Server platform runs circles around Fox (as well it should, as MS has been enhancing it). I think you need to separate the sentiment of what Fox helped us do, with what we have today.

I loved Fox as much as anyone here. I will not say "more", but I'll certainly say I loved it "as much". But beyond that, your statements just don't hold water.

Tell you what, go venture from the friendly confines of this forum and post that message on a database tech forum - see what they say. :)