Francois
Thanks for the detailed reply.
Re Python + Apache: interesting. What about scripts, inline parsing (set textmerge) and the like? currently VFP seems to have a significant speed/ease advantage in this area- not because it is "better" but because legacy commands from the old text printer days turn out to have a significant application for the web. Which supports your comments about "evolution not revolution", of course.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1