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Sedna - a metaphore?!
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11/06/2005 11:58:32
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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01022432
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>>>At the least the beginning of the next story might be a metaphore that made Ken's team decide to call this upgrade Sedna.
>>>
>>>http://www.hvgb.net/~sedna/story.html
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>>The second-largest planetoid (after Pluto) known so far, recently discovered, was named Sedna, after the Inuit goddess of the sea. The idea seems to be that since the planetoid is about 3 times as far away as Pluto, it is very cold there (actually, Sednans would consider the Arctic sea boiling hot...)
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>>The VFP upgrade was named after the planetoid.
>
>Here's the piece of text that made me wonder:
>As the legend goes, Sedna was a beautiful Inuit girl who lived with her father. She was very vain and thought she was too beautiful to marry just anyone. Time and time again she turned down hunters who came to her camp wishing to marry her. Finally one day her father said to her "Sedna, we have no food and we will go hungry soon. You need a husband to take care of you, so the next hunter who comes to ask your hand in marriage, you must marry him."
>
>Explained:
>We and VFP are Sedna. MS and the VFPTeam are the father. We regard VFP as very beautiful and are reluctant to fundamentally marry/connect to any other tool. Our father fears for starvation, as time will let diminish beauty, for sure. The hushband that the father has in mind is .NET.

Peter, the metaphore is perfect.
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