> Your professor no doubt taught you many things many of us take for granted
> or just never knew.
Just as in learning any other language: the natives don't have to know
the rules, or to hear of them ever; they know them. The newcomers must
learn them and know about them.
This holds for Fox, too. I had written some of those for ex-cobol
people. They do seem funny :) (I mean the rules)