> > guess ill have to dig thru the archives and find some of my > > old papers on 'black box', 'composite design', 'step-wise > > refinement', etc and revise for THE MODERN Audience. > > > > unfortunately, it would take entirely too much time to try > > and review the last 30yrs of experience and relate it to > > OO/etc... > > I am using VFP now, but I still long for the good old days, when I could > write a procedure, process the data, and do what I wanted to do with a > minimum of difficulty. Now, being dragged kicking, screaming and hair > pulling into OOP, it sometimes takes me 30 minutes just to figure out what > method the code needs to go in. > > Progress? We'll see. hmmm ... Lucien, the bank of Portugal ..., starting to sound like Jurassic Thread ... Marc Marc .