>In the end Python has NEARLY everything a VFP may dream for except for a decent simple integrated GUI à la fox. Tkinter is not integrated and visually even more dated than VFP UI! But it's really easy for a VFPer to feel comfortable with python syntax and code dev practices. I will certainly move the code base I am in charge of to a PYQT version at some point in time:-)

Once I was sufficiently bored to look for a language to learn (yup, that bored), and started looking at Python syntax. And I was amazed at its string chopping techniques - with using lcVar(4) to mean subs(lcVar, 4, 1), and lcVar(a to b) to chop it from ath to bth character (or, if one of them is omitted, from that end or to that end) - which is exactly the syntax I loved in... ZX Spectrum Basic back in 1983 :).