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I have decided to purchace a relational database manager and have narrowed
the field down to two contenders: FoxBase and 4th Dimension. I have a few 
questions to ask in order to pick which is best for my use:

1) SPEED. I have read that FoxBase is much faster, how much faster? Is the
speed advantage noticeable?

2) PROGRAMMING. I need quite advanced number crunching capabilities(FFT's and
numerical integration mostly). Can I write mathematical functions that are
complex(i.e. past a first year Calculus course, things like Chebyshev and
Legrendre polynomials would fall into this definition)? What sort of canned
functions are available and is it easy to define your own? Are the procedural
languages fully functional(i.e. similar to a language like C) or just there to
provide a macro like capability?

I hope to use the finalist as a prototyper for some software I'm developing
in C. I have a Mac II with 5 Meg of RAM, if that makes any difference.

Please email all replies. Thanks. :-)
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