>>>>I like European football but I don't have time to watch it on regular basis. I only have a limited time I can allocate to watching sports. And I prefer to use this time on American football. It is only once a week; mostly on Sunday; and I like it more than European Football. Nothing wrong with Euro football; just my preference.
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>>>I can not watch American football. I don't understand it and I don't like it at all.
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>>How can you don't like it if you don't understand it? It is like when someone says "I don't like VFP" when they don't know it :-}
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>Well, there are people who say they don't like typed datasets, yet.... :)

I think you missed the point. Typing anything just for the sake of keeping the compiler happy should be considered unproductive. Whether we are talking about datasets, com objects or whatever. It certainly has its place when seeking for performance and is a great benefit in certain debugging scenarios, but otoh its a pain if the tools ask the poor programmer something that the tool should be able to figure out itself.

Programmers should concentrate on solving problems in the most efficient way possible, not on syntax and worrying about typing issues that originate from technical implementation of the tool stemming back to the 70's when not neccesary. That is a waste of time. SQL would be a nightmare if all operators and expressions need to be exaclty typed. Do I really care whether a column is money, bigint, integer, decimal, float, smalint, tiny int or bit when comparing to the scalar value of 1? If I do not care, why should a tool ask me to type it?

Does Excel care what you put in a cell? Does it object when you get a resultset from SQL server that is different than before?
Does it require the user/programmer to type columns in order for you to work with it? And remember that Excell is still the most widely use BI tool out there.

We should move on and use tools that go beyond this ancient thought that programmers need to type everyting in order to create working programs. Lets concentrate on what is needed to get things done. Lets concentrate on RAD rather than having to worry about details that had merit in the last century because of limited CPU power, but do not make sense today anymore. We are living in the 21st centurly for crying out loud.