David,

>If you are looking for the purest implementation of object-oriented design and programming, then none of Microsoft's products (with the exception of C++) begin to make the mark. What you are looking for is something on the order of a Smalltalk or Python, both of which are full, rich object-oriented languages. However, I believe it was Bjarne Stroustrup, the primary writer of the C++ language, that said that there was really no such thing as object-oriented languages - that one could write object-oriented code in any language - but that certain languages were more specifically designed for the paradigm, and those are the languages we call "object-oriented".

Yeah, I kind of like Python... Not really looking for anything else though...I was just responding to note that a rich set of controls and whatnot do not necessarily make a good OO implementation in a base tool.

>That sadi, I should point out that VFP is the language in which I first learned object-oriented concepts, and what made it possible for me to understand other object-orented language implementations when I studied them. So VFP can't be that far off from the original concepts.

Indeed! I am not sure if it was just timeing or what, but VFP was the tool in use when things all "gelled" for me as well. Maybe it was seeing the OO framework laid in database form (VCXes) that made me see how magical and yet non-magical it was that made it all click...

JoeK