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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: The Cult of Clipper (was: Re: PC Magazine skipped Clipper...)
Message-ID: <1991May21.213203.27689@pegasus.com>
Date: 21 May 91 21:32:03 GMT
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In article <1991May20.182201.20099@dbase.A-T.COM> tomr@dbase.UUCP (Tom Rombouts) writes:
>
>I don't see how you missed FoxPro's enhanced windowing functionality.  Also,
>I hope people know that Ashton-Tate is working on far more things than
>just dBASE IV 1.2, 1.3, et cetera.  Some of our R&D work involves 
>things that are unlike any product we currently sell.
>
Tom,  It appears that we have various definitions of what constitutes a
'language enhancement'... you're implying the new GUI C library in town is
an extension to the C language, I don't buy that argument.
>
>Agreed.  My paperback dictionary here defines illustrious as "reputable 
>because of achievement or character".  As such, to say that Mr. Heimendinger
>is not illustrious is one of the understatements of the year!  :-)
>
This from a company who had Ed Esber as it's leader.  Frankly I'm surprised
that you would stoop to this kind of stuff.  You may be unaware of it but
Larry Heimendinger works for Nantucket, he doesn't own the company, hence
my questioning the term "illustrious leader".  The use of illustrious was
BTW, used as a slight not as a compliment by the original author.
.
>I personally think that Dave Fulton could give you a run for your money
>there....  :-)  (I don't want to sound critical, Tom, but there is rather
>a know-it-all tone in many of your postings, too!)

Do you know Dave Fulton ?  Does he program in FoxPro ?  Do the developers of
dBASE Flaw (you want to play word games ?) program in dBASE ?  I am being
told by a programmer at Northrop all about how Clipper works... I'll ask him
all about how dBASE works, maybe we can find out about A-T's development
plans from him also.  Maybe he knows when the so-called compiler is due..
>
This isn't a discussion on the relative merits of languages it's a bunch
of people defending their turf.  I find it hard to believe that the same
sort of loony discussions would survive on the C language newsgroup.  It
cannot be argued that lexical scoping is "bad" or that powerful preprocessors
should be avoided.

Arguments like that make little sense and I can't be bothered by them.

tom