Python, like VFP, is a highly dynamic language, with constructs like eval() etc, and this, in my opinion, goes to show that Microsoft did not thouroughly research the possibility of making a VFP.NET that contains everything we know and love, before dismissing it.

I have read previous threads about Python. If I read correctly, it seems to offer a command window interpreter that will work with .NOT projects. Your mention of VFP constructs (like eval()) also perked my interest.

Is Python a "language"? My reckoning is that the basic difference between our beloved VFP and other "tool" platforms is that VFP (aside from great and discrete GUI properties (format, margin,inputmask and property triggers - etc) is that VFP offers us the command window and a native database with a record pointer. The OOP scripting capabilities are fairly comprable.

Is Python a "programming" language? Does it have a record pointer?