>>I guess we should compare Visual Basic to AppleSoft or Kemeny and Kurtz's work at Dartmouth in 1964 :-)

Now that was hard and short... or was it chimney and short?

(explanation: Kurtz is pronounced same as kurz, which is short in German; kémeny means chimney and kemény means hard in Hungarian; I guess the original spelling is lost now so I can't know which one applies)

>>BTW, I still see and hear of a LOT of FoxBASE/UNIX stuff floating around out there....especially in manufacturing and shipping.
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>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.

Like "well, you know, just as any Basic is still capable of opening the files the same way it did 20 years ago, VFP also has a xBase compatibility module..."