[dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET

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in 1994 and there was no internet.
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John,

It was Internet that time!
AFAIKR I did participate in usenet MS Access newgroup starting May or July
1994 :) ...

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:31 AM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET


> ROTFL.
>
> I have to believe though that you have forgotten your early days learning
> Access, when all the millions of properties and events were so much Greek,
> and you had no idea what an object model was, never mind how to find it or
> how to interpret it.
>
> I distinctly remember moving from procedural "start at the top (or with
> Turbo Pascal - the bottom) and start executing" code to Event driven "how
> can you ever know where the code is going to execute next".  I really got
> into Access "full time" in 1994 and there was no internet.  There was no
> Access Users Group, in fact I was on the BOD of the San Diego Users Group
> sitting in on that first meeting singing "halleluiah" that I would finally
> have someone to talk to about Access.  Once a month users group meetings.
> There were very few books, and the ADH was waaaaay over my head.
>
> Yea sure, now that I have spent 10 years learning it, Access is indeed
> "chocolates on the pillow".
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
> http://folding.stanford.edu/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steven W.
Erbach
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:06 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET
>
>
> Dear Group,
>
> For what it's worth, I've come up with a suitable metaphor to describe the
> difference between writing an application in Microsoft Access and writing
> that same application using .NET technologies.
>
> Microsoft Access is like living in a luxury hotel with hot and cold
running
> chamber maids, laundry service, shoe shining service, room service, beds
> made every day, carpet vacuumed every day, fresh flowers every day, fresh
> linen, those nifty little soaps and bottles of shampoo, Magic Fingers
> massage bed, chocolates on the pillow, and your favorite newspaper
unfolded
> to the financial page for you.
>
> .NET is like clearing a wooded hillside to build a vacation cottage. But
> first you have to learn how to operate a bulldozer to clear the woods.
Then
> you have to figure out for yourself the most efficient use of block and
> tackle to haul the trees out of the way. Oh, did I mention that you have
to
> build a road to the site first? Then you need to stack the logs onto a
truck
> and drive it yourself to the sawmill so that you can saw the logs into
> boards to use to build your house. You might want to learn how to smelt
> metal so that you can make your own nails and hammer and such...
>
> It ain't quite that bad but I've never had to buy so many reference books
> and have them open at the same time.
>
> Anybody else with a less florid description of .NET development?
>
> Steve Erbach
> Neenah, WI
>
>
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