[dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET

John,

I'm not sure that my programming history is as long or as intense as yours, but I guess as I get older my ability to absorb new technologies quickly is hampered. Though, I have to say, that .NET is so much bigger than any other new thing I've learned, I think I'm allowed a bit of bewilderment, eh?

I came to Access from Paradox for Windows, which I thought was the absolute coolest application I'd ever seen except for high-end CAD back in '93. Before that it was Paradox for DOS and dBASE IV, III, and II. I wrote my first dBASE II app in '82, I'm pretty sure. Dabbled with PL/I at the technical college in the early 70s and was able to put my nose against the glass to watch the operators feed my punch cards into an IBM 370. I still love punch cards.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

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> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Date: Wed, Nov-17-2004 3:36 PM
> 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