Shamil Salakhetdinov
shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
Wed Jun 24 13:41:36 CDT 2009
<<< Natural PKs on the other hand... ;) >>> Hi John, Do you mean "great PK debate"? :) I feel that I will soon give up even "use Autonumber/Identity field for every table" principle, which I do strictly follow for many years, in the case ADO.NET Entity Framework will become my main Data Access/Manipulation technology... It's unbelievable... -- Shamil -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:16 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Learning .Net -- PHP Instead? And I contend that if the garbage collector is airtight then the need is less. VBA OTOH has a garbage collector that belongs to a union, it only works on Mondays, Wednesdays, the third Fridays and never on holidays. Unless of course it is just out on strike... I think from reading the articles and the comments underneath that there is no consensus. An opinion is an opinion is an opinion. Man is a rationalization machine and while you can rationalize as many exit points as you want, I can rationalize only a single exit point. Natural PKs on the other hand... ;) John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote: > Hi Arthur and Charlotte, > > I used to use the same "one exit point" principle over the years (especially > in my VBA programming) but I must note it's becoming obsolete nowadays: I do > not use it almost at all anymore in my C#/VB.NET development. > > Have a look what is the reasoning behind this "new approach" to not bother > about "one exit point" principle: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=631745 > > http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.325456.34 > > Everything seems to be changing in programming these days but one who has > been in programming for some time can rather clearly see we're "just" > getting repeating/rethinking of "good old habits" but on higher current > level of evolution spiral of computer science, programming methods and > practices... > > Thank you. > > -- > Shamil -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4185 (20090624) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.esetnod32.ru __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4185 (20090624) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.esetnod32.ru