Eric and Mike,
I thought I would jump in here. While I agree that Macro substitution, Eval and Text merge are cool. You don't necessariliy need them to build web applications. There are tons of developers that have never heard of WWC and VFP. They use Java, Cold Fusion, C++, VB, Perl, Apache, Python, etc. to get work done. These are tools and just that.

Rick has developed a very nice package in WWC and has done some brilliant work taking advantage of VFP's compiler/interpreter to create his package.

You guys are heading down an interesting thread here with the demonstrations of the fact that you can accomplish what you need without product specific features. For instance: we recently rewrote DataClas 2000 in Visual Basic. The VFP version relied on inheritance to accomplish its extensibilty. However VB lacks any such mechanism. This was quite a problem for me when I rearchitected this thing. However, with a little creativity we came up with a solution that was much better than the VFP one with inheritance. We created a set of tiered objects that collaborate to accomplish what VFP does with inheritance. Check out the docs on www.redmatrix.com to see what we have come up with.

Anyway, I just thought I would chime in here.

Rodman

BTW, Mike how far are you from Sioux Falls SD ??? I'm gonna be there near the end of the week.