Afraid that I'm also a native-born New Yorker, left at 17 when I went off to college, and other than business trips, haven't been back.
New Yorkers do, in general, have a "dog-eat-dog" attitude, which is why, for example, the captain took Robert's money without mentioning alternate side of the street cleaning, since from his point of view it's Robert's responsibility to know about that stuff ["He's a tourist? Shoulda done his research!"]... People who prefer co-operation to competition don't live in New York. (If you want to freak out a New Yorker, do a random act of kindness: they'll spend the whole day trying to figure out what you were _really_ up to! :-) ) Downtown New York, like downtown San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo, etc., has awful parking; public transportation makes much more sense there... In any case, I too want to thank the group and the Delphi community for its support; definitely a co-operative, helpful bunch! As for the future of Delphi, although I don't see us moving away from it any time soon, there are certainly new tools coming onto the marketplace that can be useful for some projects. Keeping apprised of such tools is, IMHO, important to personal development. To me, there is no one tool that works best on all projects, so knowing Delphi along with other languages, such as C and C++ (because they're so ubiquitous), Ruby (because it looks like a great up-and-comer), Cobol (because I was forced to learn it for a project [kicking and screaming :-) ]), etc. can only improve our flexibility and ability to determine and use the right tool for the job. Regards, Sid Gudes PIA Systems Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
