Re: Oracle/Sybase/Informix/MS-SQL Server

On 27 Dec 96 at 16:59, Andrew Beattie wrote: > Microsoft puts a lot of time and effort into making things not > "user friendly", but *novice* friendly. As you rightly state, it's > easy to pick up... > Ah, where would we be without the erudite and the concise! :-) This is exactly what I meant to say but couldn't phrase correctly. > Unix, is, on the other hand *expert* friendly. The tools are Does that mean I'm an expert? :-) > powerful and flexible. The ancient test of a good tool is that not > only does it get used for things which the author never intended, > but that it performs *well* in these circumstances. > > I use the vi editor. It's got a learning curve like a brick wall, > but having mastered it, I wouldn't swap it for *anything*. Amen. > When confined to Microsoft, I pull my hair with frustration of the > extreem difficulty I have in persuading it to do the things that > should be trivial. Yes. I seem to recall an Informix Software Engineer telling me that MS Windows is "the software development environment from hell". It's very true that straighforward things are, well, very straighforward...but try and push the envelope just a little... :-) -- Ciao, Billy I'd be in favour of apathy, but I just couldn't be bothered...