Lawrence,
Yes, that's what I'm thinking of doing, and thanks for the advice, I'm going to look into VB.NET and C#.
Funny how things morph and change. When I was majoring in Computer Science, way back in the era of punchcards and mainframes, IBM was the big evil empire that corrupted "pure" programming with terrible things like the programming language PL/1. Then along came Microsoft, with its programming practices that were just as heavy-handed and proprietary, and in my mind IBM went from Big Blue to making cute PC laptops.
And now, my distaste for Microsoft (which never stopped me from using their software, but did push me towards open-source programming) is yielding to paranoia about Google taking over the world, and suddenly .NET programming doesn't seem like such a terrible thing. The more things change...
Thanks again,
Michael
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Michael Jacobson, MD
New York, NY
