>Richard,

>I personally don't mind reading your rantings - they do an excellent job of reminding me just how a biased mind "thinks".<
If you mean "biased" against buggy products for which I paid good money, you're correct.


>But unless you really get your kicks from finding the oddities in imperfect products (and I say products very deliberately, because *you* seem to use a variety of leading-edge (who knows whence they really come) products and expect flawless interaction of *ALL*), your health might be better served by finding some other line of work.<
No, I get my kicks from delivering bug-free applications on-time, under-budget; something that is getting darn near impossible to do with this new version. Oh, yeah, I'm using a *ton* of "leading edge" products - Microsoft Win95 and Microsoft VFP 5.0


>Most of us accept that we *can* be to blame sometimes, or that a particular combination of hardware/software may have a problem.<
Show me how I'm to blame for a bug in the SQL SELECT parser, Jimmy. And, since I've seen *numerous* bugs on many different machines, using VFP under NT (3.51 and 4.0) and Win95, perhaps *you* can provide a stable development environment for me? I certainly expect MS's development products to work properly with their OSs, don't you?


>Most of us know that it generally helps to *stop* doing something which seems to be harmful.
You mean like issuing perfectly legal commands and getting back un-reliable result sets? Yeah, I'm gonna "stop doing something" alright. I'm gonna stop using (and recommending) VFP and check out PowerBuilder.


>Good luck (I hear shepherdry is relaxing)
Nah, I'm sticking with drug abuse.

-RW-

BTW, you get an A for punctuation, spelling, and grammar - Good Job, eh!