[dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare

I've always been a big fan of obsolete technology...it works.

R
 

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 12:23 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare

You are both correct. At this point in my development cycle, my choice is
JavaScript, but that is a side issue. Given enough RAM (8GB of at least DDR
2 shall suffice), then a foundation-install of one or another Linux seems
the obvious way to go, and creating one or more VMs to deal with my
remaining few clients who live in Windows, that's the way to go.

DammitOl (I'm considering trademarking that as a universal panacea to be
prescribed only to programmers with Obsessive-Compulsive-Language Disorder.
The most apparent symptoms are an eager willingness to foresake paradigms
that work in favour of some delicious new framework, wearing a mini-skirt
and high heels, but I digress.

This is a therapy session, so come on, boys and girls. Let us admit,
together, as a group, that we share an awful addiction to Things That Are
New. Let us hold hands and listen to each other's stories about how we fell
into version-addiction.

Hi, my name is Arthur, and I am a versionholic. It started with CP/M, and I
smoked it a few times, and the sex was great, but before I knew it I was
coaxed into DOS, and then once they got me hooked, I started thinking that
Windows was the next Big Hit. I fell into the trap of thinking that nest
glass of vodka woule prevent all my DLL nightmares. Pretty soon I started
drinking the next version, and the next, and then they promised that the
next drink would fix everything, and I fell for it. It cost me my house and
my wife and I can only see my software children on weekends. I fell astray
and I apologize to all previous clients. (Bring up the music and the choral
singers.)

Alack and Alas!

(Echoes of Rickie Lee Jones and "Last Chance Texaco" -- oh God that music
was so great)

etc.


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Peter Brawley
<peter.brawley at earthlink.net>wrote:

>
> On 2013-10-10 3:33 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
>
>> Because I use Basic  for my database applications (VBA), Android Apps
>> (Basic4Android) and
>> Windows executables (PowerBASIC) and I am very productive in all of them.
>>
>> If I can wiite it in Basic, why would I want to write PHP or Perl?
>>
>
> If it's your preferred language and you're happy with it, by all means.
>
>
> PB
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