>Anyway, you can't really translat the seek/scan way of doing things to a set-oriented methodology, but going even deeper: why would you really wanto to do that?
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>In 1903 someone said that man would not fly - in 1904 he did!

Yes, but they stopped trying to glue feathers into a bunch of sticks, and instead started paying attention at aerodynamics.

You don't want to fly if you can't do it with feathers and flapping wings, as it has been proven to be very difficult for human beings.

I'm sorry, Terry, but your statements about sexy applications having to ignore data-binding, SQL technology, etc. (I already know that you neglect layered architectures) is what will keep you writing poor applications while the rest of us try to learn how to build flexible and scalable ones.

I wish you the best of lucks. Perhaps all the past twenty years of computing science has been wrong, and the secret was in xBase. I just won't bet.

Regards,