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C# replacement for VFP code
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07/11/2006 13:07:29
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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07/11/2006 11:20:17
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01167122
Message ID:
01167749
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In all the meeting I've attended, the questions he's posing never come up. It's not a issue.

They say that "teaching" is one of the best ways to learn. That's because students ask questions and ensure that we do not get entrenched in "emperor's clothes" positions that are simply habits, not logical conclusions. The smartest students made my job more challenging by always asking "why" and forcing me to justify myself. One of them ended up a multi-millionaire by questioning the physics behind a certain cardiac device and designing his own better version.

The key point here is that the proponents of SP seem unable to mount a reasoned argument in defence of their claims.

All the ad hominam attacks and flurries of distraction are as nothing compared to that.

Can you please mount an ordered, logical defence of SP so people like me don't have to step in and point out where SP can be useful?

Here's a start: it has been said that SP make sense for large volume repetitive inserts- I've said it myself. Do you agree? If so, why- what are the characteristics of a SP that make it better for batch entry? For this to work you have to expect that people may challenge your statements, so you need to make sure the statements are valid.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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