>>BTW, why didn't they just make an 'A'rray data type?
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>Why can't object property arrays be passed by reference? Why can't arrays be more than 2 dimensions? Why can't AScan work on a column?
>If I could find a database development environment that came close to VFP in terms of robustness and flexibility of its database engine, PLUS had a programming language that really made sense (rather than representing a tangle of inconsistent xBase syntax evolved and expanded over several generations), I would switch in a second.
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>In fact, I've been looking closely at PowerBuilder lately. Version 5 is pretty impressive.
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>Are there any folks on this thread who also use (or have used) Powerbuilder or Delphi?


I can't get past the price tag of Power Builder when you start adding up all of the modules. I am doing a Hail Mary with VFP5 -- Thanks You! (s)

Tom