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Meanwhile, it got perverted into an ASCII vs. Unicode deal and the VB side was able to steal the show with Unicode examples that had nothing to do with the original challenge.
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Not that I am going to get into a long debate about this, because it is not worth the time, fundamental fairness has to be interjected. The challenge was not perverted into anything. The challange was something as simple as "file processing". That is a fairly open challenge. Absent any specifics, the VB folks, and extremely bright bunch, defined the rules of the game that play to the stengths of VB. I give them a lot of credit for thinking strategically on this.

>So, as far as I am concerned, the benchmark was never really established.

True, but that is not the issue. All I recall is that the VFP-side put forth an open-ended challenge. The VB-side gave more concrete definition to the challenge. Essentially, you offered, they counter-offered. You did not accept the counter-offer. The VFP-side was viewed as having backed down.

Heck, it was damn near 2 years ago, so who really cares. My reason for clarification up here is that somebody here said you got ambushed. That may be a popular version of what happened. However, that does not accurtately reflect what happened.