In the article “Life After dBase“, authors Doug Barney and Thomas Caywood conduct a rather entertaining and informative interview with dBASE II creator C. Wayne Ratliff. If you get a chance, have a read. I found what he had to say about FoxPro most interesting:

Barney & Caywood: FoxPro is sort of alive and well. Microsoft isn’t promising anything beyond the next version, but that whole dBASE community is really loyal to the FoxPro product.
Ratliff: For good reason. … FoxPro is more rigorous in its data approach than dBASE II was. It’s — maybe user-friendly isn’t the right word — it’s just friendly. It’s easy to do stuff. It’s easy to make mistakes, and I think that’s what all the rigor is going toward, trying to protect people from themselves. You can just get down and dirty with the data in dBASE and to a slightly lesser degree with FoxPro. If you have to go in and write an access program, and I did a lot of Visual Basic access work three or four years ago, it’s another step harder. They just keep getting further and further away and more rigorous. There are things like data hiding and safe typing and object-orientation and all that stuff. It takes more programming effort to get something to happen than it did with dBASE.