>I appreciate your feedback. VFP does in fact do everything "I want (or need) it to do" - per MY needs, it's not an overstatement - it is a truism in MY (not anyone else's) "world"!
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>I don't write device drivers or anything as such, I develop data-driven apps (particularly order-entry/accounting kinda stuff) and use libraries to do the "dirty work" when required.
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OK. I find that I need to get to layers below the Windows interfaces, and VFP doesn't make it easy, especially if you fall into the trap of using Windows tools for producing output (see all the recent posts on output to dot matrix printers for one example.)

VFP does some types of apps well - things that require strong data structure support at a lower level, like routing problems and other things that require varieties of linked lists are not VFP's strong suit, are hindered by VFP's memory model Since much of what I write involves shipping and logistical support, I miss the functionality...I miss my pointers...