At 11:41 2019-05-15, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:

Gene and Woody's point is that XBASE tools are quite useful for us when developing/testing, not that they are necessarily preferable for production code.

Exactly.

One advantage that is particularly nice is that they are often short, simple, and fast. When I am chasing a bug or working on an idea, I prefer being able to get done what I want done fast. The protections that one might well want for an app are often not relevant.

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Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko