Hi Michael,

I'm not sure the tide is turning (although I posted a link to Jim H's hiring by MS in this forum on the UT); but I know there is no question of what is the most effecient in which to develop software.

Compare, in Python, passing a method as an object, which can then be executed, with what it takes in .NET. In fact, I hope that gets added to VFP when/if it gets Huguninized. <s>

Hank

>Thanks Steve:
>Well there is some sentiment, at least among the dynamic language people that the tide is turning away from static languages (MS hired the author of IronPython for instance). The safety issue aside, I enjoy the ability to use macro substitution, which seems a component of dynamic languages.
>>>I've seen conversations on a number of Blogs concerning the advantages of 'static' (C, C+, C#) and 'dynamic' (Smalltalk, Python, Ruby...) languages.
>>>Where does VFP fall in this discussion?
>>>
>>>Mike
>>
>>Somewhere on the dynamic side of things. You can put code into a variable and use macro substitution, you can use EXECSCRIPT() to run a block of code that might be created on the fly, and you can programmatically create a .prg file and run it, without having VFP installed on the end-user's machine.