[dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET

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Anybody else get hooked back then on COBOL and/or RPG?
>>>
I did some COBOL and RPG, more PL/1 but mainly IBM-370 Macro Assembler ..

> I remember the IBM 370 and punch cards,
> but I can't say I loved them.
That was a fun! - I used them for several years - and one can imagine how
much of them I had for the programs on Assembler...
They got jummed and you were trying to read what is punched on them to
quickly make a replacement punch card - I did learn all the punch codes as
far as I can remember...

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET


> Oh my, Steve,
>
> That sounds so like me!  I thought Paradox was the be-all and end-all
> back in '93!  And I absolutely fell in love with dBase III (I think) in
> '87.  Anybody else get hooked back then on COBOL and/or RPG?
>
> I remember the IBM 370 and punch cards, but I can't say I loved them.
>
> Geez, what fun,
> Tina
>
> Steven W. Erbach wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >sweblog1.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>------------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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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