>>I've heard a few times that the proverb "it can be done three ways in Fox or no way" (also "...or it's not worth doing") was attributed to me, probably because I, well, tend to use it a lot.
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>>Being idle at the moment, I tried to search back in the murky old layers of messages. The first time I mentioned this was in message #147980, which is in 2001, but found that Cetin said it before me, as I expected: message #125176, August 1998. What he actually says there is "as someone said - you could do it in VFP in at least three ways or cannot do at all". So he also heard it somewhere.
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>>Where? Who IS the author?
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>I think I first heard it from Pete Olympia back in the Foxbase+ days but he may have "borrowed" it, and I definitely used the same phrase when I was teaching Xbase in those days.
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>The saying pre-dates the UT.

I think I heard YAG use it at one of UG meetings in Sommervile, NJ. You'd probably know if he came up with it better than I would. It was either YAG or maybe Mac Rubel. Either way, it was definitely pre-UT.