>> > 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
>
>
>.
I like "Natural History Museum" better, it sounds more... cultural?!
:-)