I appologise to the casual reader for what follows.

Ethics is not about admitting mistakes. Ethics is about not making them in the first place.

It's taken you less than a day to cross the line again. JVB, I have a few questions for you if you don't mind. You know, in the interest of clarifying your odious self-poofing. You understand, I'm, sure.

JVB: Intrestingly enough, when the link (with my name) was shown, there was a noticable groan from the usual suspects, those that I like to call the vocal minority and the dot Not'ers. Not be negative, but there are those who are hell bent on holding people back.

Name one person hell bent on holding anyone back. Show evidence of this.

JVB: A certain sombody here, who shall go nameless < bg > - likes to make economic analogies.

Name the weasel. If you can, support your point.

JVB:Still, it is important to recognize where MS is going to invest as far as RAD is concerned. Remember, MS is not interested in making software development an esoteric black art.

Cite one credible source wherein it is shown that making software can be made easy or easily. This is pure crap. Making software is hard, you bozo. Nothing changes whatsoever in this regard. But hey, if you believe the promise, then we can make a citation right here, right now, that JVB was the first to believe the promise so that five years from now you can publicly poof and say you were among the first to believe that making software is easy or that Microsoft will soon make it so.

JVB: Unfortunately, that idea does not square with the ideologies of some others. MS is interested in enabling as many people as possible. Quite frankley, that would involve making VB .NET as easy to learn as possible. But you know what??? The art is not in the programming, the art is in the analysis and design. No matter what MS does, being able to analyze and design properly is what separates the artisans from the hacks.

A relevation from the Prophet! Why JVB, you have been writing and lecturing for years, all over the world, on analysis and design topics. Haven't you? Why your distinguished writing and lecturing and training history is chock-a-block full of great analysis and design insight and contributions. Yep. Yep.

JVB: If you spent time learning OO in VFP, your time was not wasted and you will be rewarded. If however, you did not genericize your knowledge and listen to guys like Egger, Black, etc... then you have a problem.

Nice revisionist history there, Joe Bob. I challenge you to find a single piece of evidence anywhere in writing or in all of Al Gore's Internet that supports this point of view, especially related to Markus or I.

In other words, I am publicly calling you a liar. You scumbag.

JVB: Interesting observation: Look at this year's devcon in Orlando. By my count, roughly 25% of the content is devoted to pure Fox. The other 75% is devoted to either .NET, SQL Server, or using Fox with either/both of those technologies. If that does not explain loud and clear where things are going, I don't know what does.

Look at the lineup for any conference in any technology and observe exactly the same thing. Are we to conclude that sessions on interoperability are indicative of anything? If so, exactly what, JVB? Joe Bob.


**--** Steve