>>>I agree about WebMD and only used it as a source for the benefit of people who usually use it as a source for their arguments.
>>>Remember my last comment after using it as a reference - "Make up your own mind"
>>>>SPSS? And I'm called a dinosaur for using VFP ... ;)
>>>One difference - SPSS users were not trashed by the software owner as was VFP. SPSS last stable release:# 28 / May 24, 2021; 7 months ago
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>>WebMD was initially eMedicine, written in Fox :). I was on it for some six months in 2002... with a few prominent Foxen who worked on it for years.
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>The quality of the language used means nothing about the data stored. :D
Memo fields, or varchar(max) are among the shiniest contributions of computing to medicine. These guys are unbelievably verbose.
From what I remember of the project (it's been almost 20 years now), you may call it collective vanity publishing.