Hey John, how've you been?

>> This looks to be one of the best balanced combination of session topics for a Fox show that I have ever seen.

Maybe so. Whil Hentzen always has great balance.

But the last time you said something like this on the UT, it was to Mike Helland, saying in effect the same thing about a then upcoming conference session on WAP. Might this be the same WAP that's listed in the "Expired" column of the monthly "Wired-Tired-Expired" piece on page 44 of the July 2002 issue of Wired Magazine?

Parenthetically, your glossing of things online reminds me of Tony Soprano who, in a previous season, felt like he was "King Midas in reverse" because everything he touches turns to s**t.

Speaking of, see also page 61 of the July 2002 issue of Wired Magazine. It's a graph titled "Mother Tongues" that reflects work by Grady Booch that traces the roots of computer languages through the ages. Very interesting in light of your recent clairvoyant rants.

According to Booch, languages like COBOL 61 and PL/1 and Forth are "Extinct". Languages like Object Pascal, Oberon, APL 96 and Smalltalk-80 are "Endangered", and languages like the usual suspects and things like OO Cobol, Fortran 90, Delphi, Python, Perl, and Python are "Active". VFP's not in the graph, just like hundreds of others aren't either. But it's interesting to contrast your definition of VFP's positioning in comparison to Grady Booch's positioning of dozens of environments that are clearly on shakier user bases than VFP's. Note too the scale of the graph, and how your clairvoyant phase fits into the scale of things.

**--** Steve