Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Jan 3 21:17:36 CST 2011
I agree with you... It has been tough here with all the major changes but compared to what you have had to experience and adapt to, it is really minor in comparison. I to have had little choice but to accept the new reality. Our children travel light, do not expect to have familes or any settled location... a fact of the times. There is no choice about moving to .Net, that is just another fact of the times... I may be just getting too old and set in my ways. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 3:31 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Moving to .Net (was Ded Moroz sends you ...) Jim -- My route to nowadays C# is 30 years long - you can imagine how many "bridges" I have had to "burn" to get where I'm now (and please add to that all the social life events I and this country people have had to live through here: "melting" of 1960-ies, stagnation of 1970-ies, perestroyka-glasnost' of 1980-ies, USSR crush of 1991, gangsters'/ "jungle" capitalism of 1990-ies, back to USSR of 2000ies, 2011-th beginning as Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"...) I mean that's the main law of this global world economy - if one wanted to stay afloat they have to be constantly ready to "burn all the bridges"... I can't say I like it but I have to accept that fact as the true reality... BTW, I see how nowadays kids and young adults - most of them are not "pack rats" at all - they are so easy to (re-)start from a blank page... what they bring with themselves to the new "projects" are their experience but not artifacts... Thank you. -- Shamil -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: 3 ?????? 2011 ?. 23:36 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Moving to .Net (was Ded Moroz sends you ...) Hi Shamil: I think the main reason for the issues with the major migration to .Net is that many here have hundreds of thousands of field-tested lines of code tied up in VB/Access and now have to throw out about twenty years of work, to start again from scratch. The nearest analogy I can come up with is like having your home destroyed by war and then while in your late forties, fifties or even sixties and having to build another life and future from scratch. It may have to be done but not everyone is happy about it. Jim