And now John McCarthy! :( The original giants are leaving us... Wired News Link Mind you, me and Lisp never got on!! Darragh

Congrats on the new job... So things do pay off in the end :-) On feeling bad for your new boss just starting - a piece of wisdom from my old Boss (whom I didn't appreciate when he was there) "We're all replaceable - the company will go on" I was pretty put out by that statement for a while, but I got over it and to be honest got over my self important attitude. Within two years of him making that statement the entire upper level management that I had worked with for ten years was replaced in a merger, and the company did continue on... Bottom line - Take care of yourself and your important ones. Darragh

Interesting..... Reading this has made me realise how much Google has destroyed my ability to really write code that I understand (in the sense that I wrote it from scratch after researching a book). I started with USCD Pascal on an Apple ][e, then to VAXes in univ. and thens to PCs (C, and now degenerated to VB.NET...), so I've been doing it long enough to remember gopher.... It's been a long time since I looked at a book to figure out the way to code something as against Googling to see if somebody else has done it already. D. -------- The Good Old Days - Fast FTP to a site with a huge collection of GIFs.... hold on....