>How hard is it to run rings around a VFP app that is written
>as if it were still dBASE II? I see things like 30 fields being updated
>with the following syntax:
>
>REPLACE field1 WITH 1
>REPLACE field2 WITH 2
>...
>REPLACE field30 WITH 30
>
>instead of a single REPLACE field1 WITH 1, field2 WITH 2, ... field3 WITH 3
>

I have seen even better syntax instead of REPLACE ALL:

DO WHILE !EOF()
REPLACE field1 WITH value1
REPLACE field2 WITH value2
REPLACE field3 WITH value3
REPLACE field4 WITH value4
REPLACE field5 WITH value5

*....replace more fields

SKIP

LOOP

ENDDO

:)