>Hi, Denis.
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>>>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? While xBase hardcore fans still want to do things that way, most of the software industry is happy and productive with resultset-oriented data access? Can't be time to read about theory after all? Can you at least concede that maybe the Database research field on the last 30 years could have arrived to a better semantics than Jeb Long?
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>>most of the software industry is happy and productive
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>>I woul'nt go that far as to say that. I'd say that most of the software industry is working with what they have and trying to make to most of it.
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>Well, the truth is that no matter what they have. Working with data in sets, and not in a record by record basis is the established way of doing things, and not due to any fashion trend, but because it is the result of years of research. Please, don't tell me that you're with Terry on this one. xBase can be a cool way to handle data locally but it is not a proper access mechanism for corporate databases.
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>>As an example as a developer in VFP I'll be very happy when they implement voice recognition and that the fox is able to respond correctly when I say "Do the application that will let me become a billionaire" ;-)
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>This exist already. The only problem is that most probably the answer will be "I don't know how". 8-)

Martin,

Terry has nothing to do with what I mentioned. I only mentioned what I did because I don't think like you seem to do that everybody is happy and productive.

Some examples:

XML. Perhaps it's there by now (but I don't think so) lacks something huge and it's security. And you have to work with small data sets because if you don't the computer dies trying to process the file created.

Source code security for VFP. Nonsense. It should've been there with the first version. So now we would'nt be that concerned about ReFox, KonXise...

So that's what I meant when I said that we work with what we have and try to make the most of it. Until something better comes along.