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>Sorry, my comment was not directed towards you or your code. It's just NOBODY really knows how long a particular piece of code may remain in use.

Oh, I took no offense.

What's interesting here is the current rate of change in
the programming world. I started programming in 1964 in
Fortran. I would guess that basic programming techniques
hardly changed for the next twenty years. I got involved
with micro-computers in 1980 using Basic. Still not much
change there other than more interaction with the user.
Later on dBase II and DataFlex were different and better
because they integrated a relational database. SQL was
doing the same thing in the mini & mainframe world.

Given this picture it is understandable why code written
in the 70's and 80's would still be in use.

But now O-O programming and the web are really shaking
things up. A twenty-year forecast for programming techniques
made in 1970 would have been generally correct in 1990. I
would shrink from making any forecasts for programming in
the year 2020!

Peter