>Hi John (Koziol, not Peterson!)


Cmon - if I can't get a Norwegian to spell my name correctly - there is no hope!! :)


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I can not agree with you more regarding your last statement. Although JVP without any doubt is a prominent VFP programmer, most of his arguments here on the UT the last few months can only have the prupose of pushing his own ego. Germans call these people "besserwisser" meaning someone who always knows best.
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You probably will not believe this - but it has nothing to do with ego. There are definitely those in this business with healthy egos - and I don't profess to say that I don't have an ego - I do. More than anything - I am opinionated. If I really cared about my ego - I would likely couch what I say and frame it in a way that it would be more acceptable. People with ego issues worry more about their egos getting bruised. That has never been an issue for me.

As for JK's comment about things not getting cut for budgetary reasons. He is wrong on two counts. First - in the abstract and Second - on facts specific to VFP. With regard to the abstract - in any project - there is a budget. Given those constraints, you cannot possibly do everything. If a particular feature gets in, it may come at the expense of one or more other features. It is one of the sides of the project management triangle - and this a limiting constraint. With regard to issues specific to VFP - I know for a fact that things like COM Debugging did not make it in because it would not be cost justifiable - that it would have to come at the expense of other features. I know this based on discussions with 3 individuals currently on the team or formally on the team. This is a budgetary reason/constraint in its purest sense.

So - regardless of what you may think my motivations are - which should be irrelevant, the fact is that contemplated new VFP features have been cut for budgetary reasons. The correctness of that statement is what is relevant and that is what should be challenged. My ego has nothing to do with that.

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