David, George-

>Arguments like this to prove one language supreme over another are pretty much a waste of time, effort and CPU cycles IMHO.

I agree that VFP is _not_ the tool for this task, but I've been interested in trying to figure out how to do it in VFP to help me better understand both VB and VFP. Sadly, I'm quite stuck. I couldn't care less about the better/faster aspect.

As for the weighting. Yeah, it's weighted towards VB/VC, but, again, I'll just mention that the VB guys are _not_ the ones who started this. And, the matrix problem was designed by someone for whom this sort of I/O task is common, and he didn't have any idea of what VFP supports or not.

Not that they aren't a little gleeful about the results. And annoyingly so, too. I still can't really blame them.