>...In short, almost everything that VFP is way too cumbersome to use for - it does create ActiveX controls, integrates ActiveX/ADO and related technologies well, has good ties to the Win32API, flexible, useful internal objects not available to VFP easily like a Regular Expression parser. It's not what I'd use for data-centric apps by choice, and I wouldn't do tons of low-level development with it, but it's great for QUAD, lightweight things.

Ed, what does QUAD mean in this context?