BV> Guess what was in my mail-box when I got home late last
 BV> night...??? Yep. An invitation to the release of Delphi !

... fx: grumble, curse... kicks dog.

 BL> $800 is a joke! ROFL!!

 BV> VB Professional is about $695 from memory...

  But with M$, if you wait a year, you can buy VB for $170, then the
VB toolkit with book for $50, and Appleman for $65 and you've got it
all.

 BL> I keep discovering that everything is shit easy. At every new
 BL> step, I suffer "is this all there is?" syndrome.

 BV> True. Sometimes it can be like that. Then there are times when
 BV> it isn't anywhere as easy. The worst of all is when you have
 BV> spent a few days writing something really tricky and at the end
 BV> it works but you don't know how the fuck it does it. This
 BV> actually happens more often than you would imagine.

  Yair... I know the feeling - and then you take the punt and it stops
working. It has surprised how much my ordinary engineering skills
apply to programming. If you don't understand the details of how 
something works, it eventually bits you on the bum.

Regards,
Bob
 
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