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Re: Is Visual dBase dead?

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From: Romain
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <35f9c489.2138829@forums.borland.com>, Ken Mayer [TeamB] 
grudgingly admits...
> Ah, that explains a *lot*. Some of the Delphi fanatics are certainly
> religious about it. I went to the lab at ICon after Alan's web
> session, and was talking to John Frazier about how cool it was, and
> how fast it was, and a couple of Delphi Trolls over at some of the
> machines just looked up and sneered when I mentioned that it was done
> with Visual dBASE. I asked what that was about and they said what
> you'd expect "That old software?" To which I responded "Have you
> bothered to even *look* at it lately?" and they shut up ... amazing.
> You try to confront them and they just don't wanna deal with it ...
> 
They have a bug in their brain garbage-collection.<G>
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Romain Strieff [TeamB]
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From: teamb@opto-pps.com (Romain)
Subject: Re: Is Visual dBase dead?
Date: 1998/09/12
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