Hello Gilles!
Friday December 27 1996 17:56, Gilles Beauregard wrote to David Powell:
 GB>  It's reasonnably to figure you talk about 2000 when your computer
 GB>  date was in 1996 and you type 00. I think, but I look more from
 GB>  the side of the guy who pay hard earn money to the programmer.
No its NOT!!!  Assuming the next century for business applications does not 
mean a thing.
 GB>  From my point of view, it's hard to have a programmer admit some
 GB>  fault. It's already someone else fault, never own fault.
Thats right, its the programmers fault, the fault of the programmer who wrote 
the application in foxpro.  He didn't allow for the century.
 GB>  Just ad a new function into XBASE package in you will be
 GB>  helping lot of end user. Just admit it's missing and ask for
 GB>  it.
And break 100's of programs that used to work just fine, and lose being 
backwards compatible with for programs written in dbase etc?  May as well 
come out with a totally new product, and don't even bother with ANY backwards 
compatibility.
Cy
Internet: Cy.Welch@pmra.gigo.com
          cwelch@calweb.com
Web Page: http:/www.calweb.com/~cwelch/
FTP  DIR: ftp:/ftp.calweb.com /users/c/cwelch/
... Peter Norton is the "Betty Crocker" of software!
--- GoldED/386 2.50+
---------------