XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:07:05 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
      
      
   >    I deliberately waited until P3 got decently up to speed - figured it   
   >    was useless to waste time/effort on an outgoing standard. I can   
   >    understand P2, mostly know how to adapt most P2 to P3, but I was   
   >    never 'adept' in P2.   
      
   After VBA petered out Esri switched to Python as their preferred scripting   
   language. Installing ArcMap would also install a Python27 directory with   
   their libraries. 10.9.1 was the last of both ArcMap and Python 2. People   
   weren't happy with the transition but when you're the 500 pound gorilla in   
   the GIS world you do what you want to.   
      
      
   >> THe son of the CEO at I company I worked for was a Harvard MBA. After   
   >> driving a Boston runner's store into the ground, not an easy task at   
   >> the height of the running craze, he came to work for us. Bankruptcy   
   >> soon followed. To be fair over-expansion and the oil embargo helped. I   
   >> don't think he liked me since my Audi was bigger than his Audi .   
   >   
   >    OOoh ! "Bigger Than" ! Serious stuff !   
      
   In truth the Audi 100LS wasn't a very good car. After we split my ex   
   traded it for a Rabbit which was a step up. I think she got $500 on the   
   trade in. If the 100 was a POS the 80, Fox in the US, which dingbat drove   
   was the POS Jr.   
      
   Volkswagen was transitioning to putting the engine and drive train on the   
   other end of the vehicle and had a learning curve. Unlike the Edsel Audi   
   survived. Some of their models are sharp looking but once bitten.   
      
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