>Good analysis and remarks! Another reason maybe is that VFP seems harder to learn. Is it? Plus the fact that VB has mushroomed books anywhere available but not VFP.
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OOP is a harder concept to grasp at first, but once understood, it makes life infinitely easier. VB has the advantage of instant gratification - less to learn before you get something out of it, but IMO, much more work to create a useful solution, especially in the data-centric application environment. Once you get past the learning curve for VFP, you can be far more productive with much less effort.

I wouldn't choose VFP to write a device driver. Or VB for that matter...

>How to let previous text staying in my reply with > marker? :-)

Set the Auto-reply option beneath the message before you start to reply (there's a checkbox beneath the message text) - I make it a default for all my replies.