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I hope they see this in Redmond
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01/11/2001 06:05:44
 
 
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31/10/2001 17:25:25
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Visual FoxPro
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00575647
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>As a diehard Heinlein fan, I couldn't remember the quote. I did find this:
>Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions
>
>I found hundreds of sites with the expression, but no other attributions with a location. Seems the expression is well known, but not it's source.
>
>Pete
>
>
>>>>While lots of stuff is smarter in this new VFP, I sure do miss my Right click->Beautify option when editing code.
>>>>
>>>>I know its up there on the Tools menu, it's just not where I'm used to.
>>>>
>>>>Would you guys consider putting it back where it belongs any time soon?
>>>
>>>Your signature says: "When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout., Robert. A. Heinlein". Do you happen to remember in which of his novels he says this?
>>>
>>>Hilmar.
>>
>>Its one of those books I read umpteen years ago, and I remeber it was sort of a mantra for the people in this tribe somewhere out there on some other planet.
>>If there was something the did not understand, they'd form a circle and chant it. The book? Long forgotten, but the idea tickled me.

I could be mistaken about the quote, although I'm fairly certain it was Heinlein. If it was not I hope he sees this on whatever planet science fiction writers go when they leave this one, and forgives me for misquoting him.

What bothers me more though is that it seems none of the Microsoft people have seen this. I was betting on MS using some kind of scan technique on the UT to scan for keywords like Redmont and Microsoft.

So now I'll throw in a reference to Mike Steward and if I'm lucky might get some reaction :-))
Peter Pirker


Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?

(Woody Allen)
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