>>>>Not the same at all. My example had zero lines of method code.
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>>>Splitting Hairs. Come on. My point was to show the basic similarities. The water's warm; come on in!
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>>Ah, no, I won't. Once I stop doing VFP, I'll either retire or do anything that's not M$. They have proven reliably that they will screw programmers over and over - I have 23 years of experience with them, and was personally caught in that bad flow several times. What was the definition of a lunatic? Trying the same thing again and expecting a different result. By this age, I'm supposed to have learned.
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>Just curious - so, with the benefit of hindsight, what would you have chosen instead 23 years ago?
>(Open question to anyone really)

Microsoft had the only Cobol available for CP/M. Our HW supplier was providing software, and we didn't have much choice. But once I moved to PDP and VAX, I never looked back... except when I had to maintain the old stuff.

Back then I would have liked to do it all in any Basic or, preferrably, the then version of Turbo Pascal (which actually saved my butt - I wrote a sorter in TP so I could churn an annual report which wouldn't ever be done otherwise, because M$'s indexes on Cobol files crashed ungracefully as soon as it hit 32768th record, and the vendor was obliged to stay silent until we pressed them). There wasn't much else available on CP/M then, anyway.

But then, three years later, I discovered Fox :).