>>Hi again Craig ----
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>>(Missive: Such marvelous topics to be involved in while waiting for the Star Wars trailer to download)
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>>I've wondered why MS never has stressed RAD in general marketing of VFP but then I realized that they had coopted "best RAD tool" for VB and therefore probably decided not to use RAD and VFP in the same paragraph.
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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.
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>It's in there....just buried.

I use a mouse pad that I received at one of the DevCons of VFP and it says:
"The object-oriented tool for creating high-performance desktop, internet and client/server database applications."

I have always preached that it is the language (XBase vs BASIC) that sets VFP apart from VB. I guess VB programmers don't want to learn the language (plus since there is no standard the schools can't teach it) just like I don't want to learn VB. Although MS really want me to learn VB...
DLC