>Yes Craig, but once CA acquired it, they did break our legs, in a manner of

Andrew,

So right!. CA-Clipper is another spelling of Titanic as far as I'm concerned -- Charlie Wang managed to drive it right into the iceberg.

Too bad too, the language had a lot of nice features including actual array mechanics, code blocks, NIL, compilation into machine code -- things that VFP could benefit from and probably will inherit at some point as more and more Clipper programmers migrate.

I don't know a single Clipper guy who has stayed with it except for maintaining legacy apps.

Not the first time Wang has done us. Remember SuperCalc or SuperWriter -- applications that were 'way ahead of their time, but which just disappeared after being bought by CA.

All CA products should by law feature a large skull and crossbones as a warning to the unwary.

regards,