John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Nov 17 18:24:07 CST 2004
Shamil, That's about like saying the caveman had office buildings because the women sat around a campfire in front of the cave. 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 Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:07 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET <<< in 1994 and there was no internet. >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com