>>>Ken,
>>>
>>>A few observations if you will permit me:
>>>
>>> 1) There are *NO* guarantees for *any* language in terms of durability.
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>>Somebody say Amen, can I get an Amen. . . .< G >
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>>Just keep up the guerilla marketing!
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>Oh, if only that were true!.
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>One of the guarantees is that if its obsolete, it'll hang around forever, like an Albatross.
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>Somebody say COBOL, can I get a COBOL?.... ;-)
So you're saying we should wish for obsolesence? When's the last time you worked on somebody's dBase III code? There were just so many million lines of cobol around, they haven't been replaced, which makes for an interesting new year.
John Harvey
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