>I wonder how many of us here remember doing autocoder? Even direct machine language in the card deck < s >

Ouch! This dates me: IBM 360 Assembly with punch cards (10-hour turnaround time for this printout: "Line 1: Syntax error").

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>I think a WHOLE LOT of us are rootin for eTechnologia.

Indeed. What they already have is amazing. What they have promised is double that. The plane to VFP.NET Shangri-La has been announced, some passengers have fastened their seat belts, but the plane has not taken off yet (as the technicians are furiously working on "some engine related stuff") <g>