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From: kms@well.sf.ca.us (Kelly Stanonik)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper 5.01 error message
Keywords: Clipper Arghhhh
Message-ID: <24909@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 21 May 91 04:22:36 GMT
References: <1991May13.223912.1975@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1991May15.110418.5031@anomaly.sbs.com> <1991May17.215929.18795@pegasus.com> <1991May19.022917.7632@anomaly.sbs.com>
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mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:

>Quite possibly because your code doesn't involve the level of sophistication
>that ours does? Perhaps we're writing something other than "hello world"
>programs with Clipper?

I'm not going to blow my own horn, but I won't hesitate to blow Mr. Leylan's.
Your implication that TL's code isn't sophisticated is pure hogwash.  He's
proved himself to be a *very* competent Clipper programmer over the years
on Nanforum and among other things wrote the original 5.0 demo program.
His programs exceed the "hello world" level of sophistication by several
orders of magnitude.  HE is very likely to find bugs in 5.01 if there
are bugs to be found.

If you HAVE found some bugs, then GOOD, let's get down to the nitty and
the gritty and DEFINE them and Nantucket will get them FIXED.

>Or, when hundreds of other people begin to experience the same problem. When
>the database community decides to send Nantucket the route of Ashton Tate.

When a lot of folks find the same problem it will turn up.  Nantucket's
made some mistakes in the past, and I think folks can tell you that I've
been as hard or harder than anyone else on them.  Frankly, though, I don't
think 5.01 is one of them.

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