Dear Perry,

>>I have had plenty of discussions with my VB/.Net friends and Java co-workers. Guess What??????? Cursors are absolutely, positively, matter-of-factly No Big Whoop to them.

But that's exactly what I said, Perry. Did you read my post or just cut-and-paste the sermon? I said that in most other development environments, persistent local datastores are unpredictable memory hogs- a really bad idea. But MSFT and some of the more innovative providers are doing something about it. Hoorah.

>>Everyone here continuously harps on the believe that MS killed Foxpro. etc etc..

You must have meant to paste this sermon somewhere else.

>>by using VFP instead of more modern tools, I would worry that features would be introduced in the more modern tool that would never make an appearence in VFP. If your competition makes use of these tools, you could be behind the 8ball.

Worry not. I *tried* to use the technology used by your "no big whoop" friends before I made my decision. Cursors, or more particularly their automatic memory/disk spanning, is a huge productivity boost for the work I do. So if the competition wants to go down some other route, then "full speed ahead" I say.

>>Your post is a poster-boy for the problem here. Much like in politics where people obviously only here what they want to hear. Typically, whatever supports what they already believe.

Nice sermon. Facts: I used Java long before you did, if you ever did. I formally appraised C# starting when it was still in beta. Unlike some others who blow the dotNET bugle while in real life continuing to do everything in VFP.