I once read an article about CA management style. Seems that their employees are required to change jobs every three years. How can you feel responsible for a product if you know you'll be somewhere else in three years? Look at how long many of the Fox people at Microsoft have been on the team.


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>So right!. CA-Clipper is another spelling of Titanic as far as I'm concerned -- Charlie Wang managed to drive it right into the iceberg.
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>Too bad too, the language had a lot of nice features including actual array mechanics, code blocks, NIL, compilation into machine code -- things that VFP could benefit from and probably will inherit at some point as more and more Clipper programmers migrate.
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>I don't know a single Clipper guy who has stayed with it except for maintaining legacy apps.
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>Not the first time Wang has done us. Remember SuperCalc or SuperWriter -- applications that were 'way ahead of their time, but which just disappeared after being bought by CA.
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>All CA products should by law feature a large skull and crossbones as a warning to the unwary.
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>regards,