Unfortunately, I had never head of Eric Rudder before. He must have been one of the ones that went from Fox Software directly to other projects (VB?, SQL Server?). Good for you, Eric.

Eric, perhaps you agree one of the reasons Fox has a "cult" following is because of the syntax. Maybe it is because I come from Fox 2.6, but the more I learn about SQL Server, the more I wish I could accsess SQL Server data directly from VFP. For example, APPEND FROM... and a simple REPLACE..., not to mention the very un-PC GATHER MEMVAR. VFP could be the very best front end to SQL Server you could dream of, and all because of the language. It would be incompatible with Oracle, to boot. Congrats on the write-up.

Alex

>The current editorial in Visual Basic Programmers Journal has a short review of the challenges of VB and the heros which helped VB to succeed. VFP was part of the success...
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>"VB's heroes come in many shapes and from some unlikely places. One rarely acknowledged hero: Visual FoxPro, which Microsoft acquired in 1992. Several of the people who were responsible for adding inheritance and many other features to FoxPro eventually joined the VB team, including Rob Copeland, Drew Fletcher, and the tenacious Eric Rudder. This group played a critical role in a dev team transitioning from VB3's 16-bit programming world to VB4's 32-bit-programming, classes, OLE Automation, and COM."
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>http://www.vbpj.com/upload/free/features/vbpj/2001/07jul01/en0107/en0107.asp