filePro List Uses

[Steve Wiltsie]

Nancy,

While I've been a member of this list for a little less than your million years, I agree with everything you said.  I'm also guilty of responding directly to someone with a question simply to stay out of the cross hairs of other responders.  The recent bubble sort fray was a perfect example.

As we have all probably said to our kids at one point or another - let's just all try to get along.  Life is too short for anything else.  At 70, I understand this all too well.  I've been developing programs in filePro since the Profile days but it seems like just a little while ago.

Thanks for your thoughts,
Steve Wiltsie


-------- Original message --------
From: Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Date: 06/03/2016 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: filePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: filePro List Uses

Gentlemen,

I just had time to read the last thread and enjoy the back and forth
that has most of the members of the list lurking and laughing in the
background.

I have been a member of this group for, what seems to be, a million
years.  I have seen flames thrown by the best.  But it is true that the
flames are totally burning out the few developers left in this
community.  I know people are now quick to vent every idea and emotion
in writing, but if someone angers or offends please count to ten before
you respond.

One comment said that instead of posting an answer to a question on the
list, the poster now sends the answer directly to the questioner.  I
have seen this from a number of members in recent years.  While this
behavior certainly helps the poster, it decreases the value of the list
because the other members never see the suggested solutions.

I would like everyone that still reads these posts, to agree that we are
a dwindling group and should be more supportive in our efforts to work
with filePro projects.  Please be tolerant of the differences in
personality and remember we programmers can be a lonely group and some
venting and posturing is normal.  Also remember the written word lacks
tone and inflection, which makes it easy to misunderstand comments.

I noticed 3 postings for jobs recently.  This is good for the community.

After all these years, I feel like I know each and every one of the
people that post on this list.  I have met many at the conferences.
Let's not start bickering.

By the way, I loved the idea of posting tricks and solutions once a week
to help other programmers.  I did it for a while also years ago, but
work got in the way.  I was glad to see others pick up the idea and do
it again.  Lets try to build on that and post a trick or idea or feature
that helped in some way, once in a while.  It will certainly show the
lurkers that there is still some meat on the bone with filePro development.

Your colleague,
Nancy

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Nancy Palmquist
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Virtual Software Systems - www.vss3.com<http://www.vss3.com>
(412) 835-9417

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