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

In <53tsuh$6jr@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> jparker@boi.hp.com (Jack Parker) writes: >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. This is the famous VB "Code behind a thousand doors". Access suffers from it as well, and I think it's an attempt to get low level development done with a minimum of pain. The trouble is, of course, that there is no such thing as low level development. Two weeks after implementation the requests for improvements come so thick and fast that you're always better off starting with greater complexity in mind....IMHO. In any case, there are far better Rapid Application Generators out there for the smaller stuff than either of the MS products, its just that the bllody things are so f*****g cheap!! Bryan Tonnet batonnet@zeta.org.au