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>So having said quite a mouthful, I am humbly asking your opinion which would be a great 2nd programming language to learn? I guess it shld be truly object oriented, and has a far reaching capability than VFP.

Tell you truth, I don't know. It depends on what kind of applications you're planning to develop, what's job market where you live and many other factors. I personaly, like combination of VFP as fontend with MS SQL Server as backend. You've to decide for youself in what direction you want to go.