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> Perhaps I'm just too set in my ways to acknowledge this is now a mass > production industry, requiring standardisation and interchanagability, > rather than the "we're all learning this as we go, so there's no rules" > industry back when I started 21 years ago. Like any sufficiently complicated endeavor, there are tons of rules, but none of them work. Every couple of years there are new fads. Right now, its Bill Gates idea that everyone would be better off to through away their VB 6 code and write in something that pretends to be Vb but is a sucky form of C. It's like the constant effort within Microsoft to get everyone to leave Windows 3/95/98 and go to some improved version of the NT code - Nt workstation, then 2000, now XP "Don't these people appreciate what we are trying to do for them?" Yeah make all our old interfaces break, introduce a whole new generation of driver bugs, break that one program that the business depend ont hat was written back in 1988 and the programmer got hit by a train, that sort of stuff. Brad Jensen elstore.com LaserVault - archive from and view from AS/400, NT. UNIX, AIX, and now OS/390 VM
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