>>>>>FWIW, Mac Rubel gave a presentation to our user group that showed there
>>>>>was only a negligible impact on performance even when going down to the
>>>>>tenth level of inheritance.
>>>>
>>>>In VFP, of course... :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm glad you added that adendum :-) Otherwise, I would have suggested that we were not talking about the same tool.
>>>
>>>At least from my experience.
>>>
>>>Also, while PB 3.0a was resonable stable, the 4.0 version couldn't walk across the street without crashing, that's why 5.0 came out so quickly. Despite some of the complaints about VFP5's bugs on this forum, they are insignificant. compared to the misery PB4 caused me.
>>>
>>>Jerry
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>>This is the main reason I am hoping on moving on from a 'proprietary' language in the future. With this type of language, the programmer is stuck betwen a rock and a hard place. While the programmer can switch to something else, what is reasonable: Stay with what you got and wait for a fix, or walk out on a limb in terms of the unexplorered, learning curves, etc?
>>
>>Peter
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>Exactly!
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>My most miserable experience came using Advanced Revelation 3.x from Revelation Technologies. That product, a DOS based RDBM was fantastic. RT was supposed to swtich the paradigm to a Windows environment. I was a beta tester for the windows product, Open Insight. They ignored the reports from the beta testers. It seems that the Pres had a bonus agreement with the board about meeting a product deadline. He got his bonus, but the resulting publicity about OI 2.0 killed sales. RT, while it still has a small website presence, has evaporated from the scene. They merely but C wrappers around the DOS dlls. Result - a crippled dog that was slower than a snail. I was the first to ask for a total refund for the 5-pack I purchased in advanced. I wouldn't have gotten it, I think, if I hadn't challanged the Pres on the compuserve forum after he made a statement about how fantastic sales were going. I think some others got stung pretty bad. After my OI experience I began looking
>around and decided that I would never be a one-tool developer again. That;s when I picked up Delphi, PB, and VB. I won't count Realizer 1.0. I didn't come across FoxPro until a year ago November. I don't think I would have chosen the Visual 2.5 version but VFP5.0 is great, and the DBF is an extremely fast and stable back end. It's Microsoft's secret weapon!
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>Jerry

I agree, the fox database engine with dbfs is extremely fast. It would be cool if the database engine was available in other langauges much like the Access database engine is available to C++, Visual Basic. :->
Peter