>Hiya Craig ----
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>>>Sorry, didn't mean to get off-topic, but until VFP gets completely away from all resemblence to xBase (and no, it will never happen), the comparison to 15-year-old technology can't help but be made. That's why my original post reminds us that whether it's Visual or not, the battle of FoxPro vs. dBase is still being fought.
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>I guess we should compare Visual Basic to AppleSoft or Kemeny and Kurtz's work at Dartmouth in 1964 :-)
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>BTW, I still see and hear of a LOT of FoxBASE/UNIX stuff floating around out there....especially in manufacturing and shipping.


I don't think there is a problem with calling older versions of Fox as xBase, but VFP is such a dramatic jump, I think it should be called "OOP RAD tool for highspeed database development" or some such thing.