Jim,

I guess it comes down to different levels of abstraction. C might be able to loop through something faster than foxpro, but the same code written in Assmebly(which I hope I never have to do again) would out perform C.

Can you imagine developing a grid in assembly. :(


James

>What is material is that C ultimately resolves down to Assembly (or, if you prefer, "machine" language") and VFP does the exact same thing except much of it starts out as VFP native code which is "interpreted" by that Assembly language (which starts its life out as C code).
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>Just adding to the discussion
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>Jim N