I used Foxpro for about 15 years, until 2011 when I got laid off from that job. At one point I experimented with MS-SQL and came close to sacrificing the CDs on

I used Foxpro for about 15 years, until 2011 when I got laid off from that job. At one point I experimented with MS-SQL and came close to sacrificing the CDs on a funereal pyre because it was just. so. horrendously. slow. compared to Foxpro. VFP had a slick little way of letting you indirectly address variables and pop them into a SQL statement or other VFP code, and they would evaluate at runtime. Later when I was learning Java & Javascript I was quite annoyed that I was not able to do this.