[AccessD] 10 things I don't miss about Access

Hi Jim --

<<<
 I have been working with Access since 2002...nearly 20 years.
>>> 
Do you mean since November, 1992?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access)

I have started to develop MS Access apps one year later - end of year 1993 -
and in summer 1994 I have been feeling myself a kind of MS Access/VBA
"Expert", really :) - I have got my first international MS Access project in
summer 1995 and that was very heavy duty MS Access VBA/programming...

... with .NET/C#/VB.NET getting at "Expert" level takes 4-5 years I suppose
(at least that was my experience) - still this .NET/C#/VB.NET/...
development environment is so rapidly changing/evolving that one has to be
learning constantly new and new technologies/programming concepts
implemented in .NET and its main languages C#/VB.NET. In fact many of that
"new concepts" are "good old ones" - as e.g. functional programming, lambda
calculus - very useful stuff, `makes coding streamlined, ready for
parallelization - have a look -
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericwhite/archive/2006/10/04/fp-tutorial.aspx ...

And MS Access/VBA has got into "stagnation/very slow evolution phase" since
MS Access 2002/XP - then years for now... :(

Thank you.

--
Shamil
 
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] 10 things I don't miss about Access

I think Microsoft should have moved MS Access into .Net and extended web
capabilities. A transitional period would have been nice as well.

Then MS could have had an excellent platform, that would run under any OS
and browser, a huge set of trained developers ready to defend and build
their products. Just cutting off a whole product line is not likely to
garner much product and company loyalty.

That is just my opinion but I have been working with Access since
2002...nearly 20 years.

Jim