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[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Bruce Easton been jivin' 'bout like:
> Fairlight wrote Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:55 PM:
> [..]
> > I've been told that the reason the same routines in blobfix aren't
> > used in the real product is because they're slower and less efficient.  >
> Now...if there are -no- known issues, why is there a blobfix
> > program at all?
> [..]

> You blob?  I don't blob. I try to prevent all blobbing here.
> I'm not sure one can be gellin' and blobbin' at the same time.
> I guess since I wrote a mini word-processor in filepro complete
> with spell-check (*nix) prior to the existence of blobs, I
> really didn't much need them.  But I think their rocky history has
> also given me fpblobophobia.

I don't blob personally--not in fP anyway.  In MySQL I have.  But those are
integral to the actual tables rather than tacked on separate files.  You
know, you can't fault fP for having blobs as an afterthought, as the
concept came about well after fP existed.  You -can- complain about there
being issues left after multiple years since they were implemented.

No, I don't, but I have clients that use blobs.  And indeed, Blobs and
Memos both have a rocky history.  A couple people finally figured the
problems were fixed, tested them out, saw they looked okay, and then later
on, "Oops, bitten anyway!"  In my opinion, something like that is a valid
justification for a bit of a phobia about it.

mark->
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