>Since there are some people on this thread who have used both Delphi and VFP, I'd be curious to know the following. I have heard a number of claims the Delphi is also far superior to VFP in terms of bug handling. True or False?
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>1) A claim was made that Delphi programmers spend a lot less time working around Delphi bugs than VFP programmers do getting around VFP bugs.

Bugs in VFP? Maybe it depends a lot on what kind of systems you develop with VFP. I have'nt seen a VFP bug in a while. I use VFP 6 with SP3 and everything goes pretty well. There are some things I have'nt touched in VFP (ADO for example) so maybe there could be bugs there but it doesn look like it. If you are ever faced with a weird bug in VFP there is a superb reference that will help you get rid of those bugs. There is a book called "Hacker's guide to VFP 6.0" and it covers everything related to VFP 6.0

>4) The claim was made that the borland debugger works much better than the VFP debugger -- and that finding and fixing programmer errors was also faster than in VFP.

I never used the Delphi debugger but I can tell you that the VFP debugger (since VFP 5) is really something. I can't say if it is the case but I heard that the VFP debugger is the same as Visual C++.

>As I said, I don't know that any of the above are true, but they are very significant claims. Finding and fixing bugs is probably the most time consuming portion of programming, once the analysis phase is complete. If a language has fewer built in bugs, and makes finding our own bugs easier, that is an extremely significant advantage.If I got confirmation of the above from a second source, I would be very tempted to make the time to learn Delphi and check it out.

I have'nt had a chance to look at the new version of Delphi (5) but it looks really interesting. The last thing I made with Delphi involved data processing. To be better than VFP in this regard would mean that they must have improved it a lot not only for data-processing but with the development of a data-based management system.

>BTW the claim was also made that if you use ODBC Foxpro drivers rather than stupid Paradox ones Borland encourages the use of with Delphi, you could get performance close to that of VPF in querying, and faster than that of VFP in screen refreshes, and table updates. I would be very interested to here about confirmation of denial of this as well.

I am skeptical about this one. I would like to hear about it too.