>>I believe It literally means "at the man" ...
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>>RS might be a little biased..
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>Yes, it means arguing against the opponent as opposed to against the opponent's argument - and it did seem that is what you were doing with Viv, who rather has a reputation of keeping personal attacks out of technical discussions.

I must admit I try to be liberal minded. Usually if someone wants to kill a few classmates using semi-automatic weapons or maybe blow up the odd plane I remain ambivalent and able to assume that they may have sound reasons for their actions. However when someone advocates using VFP for a web application I have real difficulties :-}

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>So what is RS's bias? Is VFP his first choice for current web development? If not, why not? Is it because he lacks your knowledge or technical skills with VFP? Or because he just does not understand the arguments you present?
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>I have never heard anyone defend VFP as a web tool to the extreme you have and since AFAIK Rick was the most successful in getting VFP to work for web development I just wondered if he has the same passion for using VFP today on the web that you do
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>>>Now That's funny :o)
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>>I don't know, Old Fella - right back atcha is a pretty devastating technical argument.
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>>Too bad Rick Strahl doesn't hang out here much anymore. He's done a little web development - even used VFP a bit and knows something about it. I wonder if it is the first tool he reaches for when doing web and why or why not. Would be interesting to hear from him on the subject ( though I am not sure he could match Mike's experience and technical expertise.)
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>>>>right back atch you old fella
>>>>>Argumentum ad hominem...