Kevin,

>About the only point I'm really trying to drive home is the inconsistency...that all the creativity that VFP people have shown in producing results that weren't part of the initial language only seems to apply to VFP - that if 10-20 lines of code are written in another language to achieve a similar result of a single VFP command, it's viewed in a less positive light.

I think that's not true, I'm the first one to admit that using API and use low level functionality it is a pain in VFP and you'd better choose a better equipped language like Delphi, VB, C/C++ and even .NET, if you want to make extensive use of that. In the same line you cannot or should not want to build device drivers or graphical tools in a language like VFP.

But when it comes to writing database applications for a living, VFP might suit you better than anything else.

Walter,