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>As for what "lousy" means; well, in my mind something lousy gets thrown in the bin (unless it is my daughter's scalp! )and I'll bet I'm not alone in that.
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>I disagree 100%. See my examples in the previous post. There are plenty of features of a language that can be "lousy" but useful. You're telling me you've never considered some aspect of VFP irritating/strange/slow but used it anyway? If so, fine, but I consider you a fortunate man.

John - maybe it's a language thing - here, the word "lousy" has lost all relation to it's original meaning of "infested with lice" and now simply means "not very good"