Hi John,

>>>However, even in that light I know that a very large number of current developers have worked with XBase at some point in time - you hear very few lamenting that they wish they had it back...
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>Well, developers are motivated by lots of ideas other than business sense. I thought I was running a cool company-converted-to-Java in 1997 but soon realized I was running a programmer hobby center. Programmer heaven- lots of cool new stuff every day, everybody in "learning" rather than "delivery" mode, lots of opportunity to position oneself as a leading-edge guru and/or write really clever code... ;-)

I agree with you John. This idea has been tossed out a few times here on the UT, how some developers have moved to other tools and "never looked back", as if this was evidence of something. The human nature alone is enough to ensure this attitude. It does not reflect on the previous tool. Whatever tool is making you the most money now is the "best tool in the world" and the "best tool for the job" :)