In reply to Ron Cody.

Ron, maybe you and Rick can plan a post-retirement road show about SAS functions -- the guy who wrote the functions, and the guy who taught the world to use them.

Actually, I think John Sall had ownership of PROC FORMAT before Rick got it. But I'm sure that Rick had the opportunity to *rewrite* it when everything was reimplemented in C.

Well, I guess John can take it back, if he wants. But fortunately, Rick has done a great job of making sure that the very capable developers here know how to pick up where he left off.