Re: Converting from Informix till SQL-server, Experiences ?

> > > Billy Boy's love affair with this tired old hag really sickens me. > > Hey, hey, HEY!! A little more respect when you talk about my wife.... :-) > > Ohhh, you meant Bill *Gates*... > > No, but seriously folks, it is nice that you can use the same language to tie > up spreadsheets, word processing and enterprise wide, mission critical apps. > > Well, spreadsheets and wordprocessing, anyway. > > Well, erm, ah, errrr, <cough> > > We've been conned by one client into writing a VB app, and I swear: it's the > first and last. To hell with the fact that runtimes are free; to hell with the > lower cost; to hell with the nice trimmings; to hell with the fact that you > can tie in MS Word... > > VB SUX! > I don't know that I would use those exact words, but my experience has been that VB is an attempt to make programming available to the masses. My principle problem with it is the 'OO' nature of the stuff - every third line invokes something from someplace else which you then have to search for to determine what is actually being done. It is easy to have a dozen windows open each of which is responsible for a portion of the same logical thread of processing. Very difficult stuff to read. A few other issues as well - but that one really sticks in my craw. cheers j. ________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@boi.hp.com Currently on loan to PLD/PE ________________________________________________________________________ Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx) ________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. ________________________________________________________________________