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> Missed the fact that filePro can talk to ODBC databases since, if I recall
> correctly at least 2003.

Ah, but you add that in and then you get into the Windows-only nature of
that feature, which is certainly a negative, making the whole thing a wash
of sorts.  I mean, it's good -if- you can run the 'doze version--of course
it's a positive overall, since some of something is better than all of
nothing.

> Didn't have time to read Anderson's article, yet.

Unless you like to be sardonically amused, save your time for something
more productive and enjoyable. :) It's an obviously biased opinion piece
that smacks of coming from the heart rather than the head.  I would know,
I've written enough of them in my time.

It's a rather sad statement that something that used to apply mostly to
console gaming has been extended to pretty much every realm of computing.
Well, console gaming is the biggest offender to date, but come to think of
it actually this kind of religious war goes back to BSD vs SysV, C64 vs
Apple ][e, emacs vs vi, WordPerfect vs Word [vs WordStar in the old days],
Mario vs Sonic, and any number of others.  Probably 90% in any forum that
actually speak up are either 'fanboys' or 'trolls'.  The reality lies in
the middle between the 5 and 95% extremes that never seem to say much of
anything.  Geez, count your blessings fP isn't subject to gaming community
scrutiny. *low whistle of dismay*

Something else actually just dawned on me, and it strikes me as practically
a truism.  If I look at my attitudes towards things circa '89-'94 versus
the evolution of them over the last 15 years, I fall into opposite camps
in the same communities depending on the spot in the timeline, with a
sort of middle ground between.  To me, it appears that the young judge
and criticise, the older make do but see room for improvement, and the
relative elder statesmen simply use or drop something virtually without
comment.  Maybe it has to do with how tired one gets of fighting inertia
along the way.  Maybe it's a maturity thing.  Maybe it's both.  But it's
frighteningly universal to pretty much every community of which I've been a
part.

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