>I wrote a running race management app in FoxPro 2.6 several years ago and it was taken over by someone else who passsed the torch to someone else etc... When I enquired about it this year I learnt that it had been updated and revised using a language I hadn't heard of before - Python.
>So it seems to be a growing presence.

Python has a lot in common with foxpro 2.x:

- clever guy at the top,
- sleek interpreter,
- command-line for fast self-training,
- few concepts (clever ones by the way),
- a great community (missing a UT forum!)

A pretty simple tool when you want to build
clever web-based apps.

Still not a great tool for UI-intensive ones
but that will come up one day.

I do not want my apps to depend on those interests
of a few people at MS (or SUN by the way).

No .Net or java. Software making based on viable
standards and controlled by software makers.

OPEN SOURCE is the only long-term solution.

A recent convert