One of us have to get in line for I, too, want to buy Chris a beer or two. In fact, my thanks to virtually everyone participating in this thread for being so civil throughout this discussion.
The one last point I want to make before opting out of the thread, though, is the point I originally wanted to make but don't know if I really ever got the message across .. particularly to SAS.
First, I really do hope that SAS enhances EG well beyond the point of not giving you paper cuts. Invincibility might be a bit much to hope for, but I wish for as close to that as they can provide.
However, I have to speak for those of us who will never get to enjoy the fruits of those efforts, but will still be using SAS for the next five years or so.
As I've mentioned, my office relys on an AF application and, to date, nothing has been offered that can replace it. What I haven't mentioned is that a large part of that application was built in the SAS6 days and SAS has never offered anyway of automatically upgrading SAS6 AF modules even though they drastically improved it in SAS8. Unfortunately, they didn't upgrade many of the various components they provided with it, thus the entire Toolbox project can only capitalize on SAS6 modules.
I'm sure my office is not the only one that is still living with such legacy code. And legacy code, fairly soon, will have to be replaced. My one wish is that SAS will realize that and make it easy for my predecesors to capitalize on the many years of work that went into developing what we currently have. Conversely, my ultimate replacements can spend ten to fifteen years just getting back to our current levels, whether that be with a future version of EG or some non-SAS language, but why should that have to be!
That is the final question I have to ask.
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