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Re: Oracle #1? Then why are these still missing...

From: Dirk Bellemans <Dirk.Bellemans_at_skynet.belgium>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:25:29 +0200
Message-ID: <7otv3s$bu7$2@news1.skynet.be>


Gary O'Keefe wrote in message <37a046eb.13896220_at_news.hydro.co.uk>...
>
>Sometimes you just have to break backwards-compatibility. It pisses
>folk off, but nothing stays the same forever. Bad decisions, made in
>the past, sometimes have to be radically corrected. Or, you could do
>things the MS way and build layer upon layer upon layer of performance
>killing, compatibility preserving, nonsense just so some geriatric old
>tosser can still run dBase v1.0.

Ha! Never change a winning team ;-)

--
Dirk Bellemans
Modify email address to reply (use .be instead of .belgium) Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 02:25:29 CDT

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