Interesting answer Charlie, but what about the perception that this is a shrinking market? We need something that is likely to have a long future and can be supported by a reasonable number of developers.

>Mark:
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>Here are few selling points:
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>- The VFP cursor engine is a very rich environment for working with local data. Its supports traditional navigational commands as well as SQL commands. They can be mixed and matched in ways that other langauges just can't match. Add to this the ability to create custom data manipulation classes as the cursor and data environments can be subclassed.
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>- Another powerful feature in VFP that might not be in other languges that are not interpretive is something called macro expansion. This allows you to evaluate string variables on the fly and treat them like commands. Not sure I'm describing right, but I couldn't live with out it. Very powerful feature!
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>- In a client server application, you can have a local VFP database at your disposal on the client. Can save a lot of round trips to the server for data that doesn't change much, like lookup tables or for whatever else you might need local data storage for.
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>- Fox head looks cool on the desktop.
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>Charlie