>Hi Isabel,
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>Not an uncommon reaction in my experience. I've had plenty of VB and VC++ coders drop their jaws at VFP apps. But then they go back to VB or VC++.
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>>(I once worked with a devoted C++ programmer who, after spending about 3 months with VFP, said "This is amazing. You can do ANYTHING with it.")

That's a bit of an exaggeration, but I come from that side of the fence, and VFP is definitely one of my front-line tools where it meets my needs well. There are things that VFP is unsuitable for, clearly, but on more than one occasion I've worked up a prototype of an app in VFP, and the client elected to have me carry the prototype in VFP forward rather than go back and implement the production application in theoriginal target language.

The best advertising for VFP is letting clients see what it can do.