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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
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>>Off topic, Sergey-
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>>I've always wondered...what _does_ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature" mean?
>
>Well, it's a restatement of "[Arthur C.]Clarke's Third Law":
>
>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I like the variant:

Any sufficiently advanced civilization no longer believes in magic.

I can't attribute it; I remember reading it in a sci-fi book, might have been by Paul Preuss, a sometimes co-author of Clarke's.
Regards. Al

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