Michael R Mattys
mmattys at rochester.rr.com
Wed Oct 24 21:08:57 CDT 2007
Glad to hear some news on this, since I decided to go with PHP and its adodb data-abstraction layer add-on. I will use MySQL or SQLite for which this wrapper is used http://www.thecommon.net/2.html Michael R. Mattys MapPoint & Access Dev www.mattysconsulting.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> To: <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Renaming DBA-VB >I do not usually answer my own emails but... > > I must qualify my last comments as I was unaware of the product cost which > had me fumbling for my oxygen mask as soon as I saw it. > > Fortunately there are evaluation copies available. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:12 PM > To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Renaming DBA-VB > > I offer wonder why Ruby-on-rails is such a popular program considering > that > its performance is rated at one thirtieth of that of C and far below the > speed of any .Net flavour. > > A friend has recently been required to work with ROR and was not impressed > with performance and that it could be written so cryptic that he was > required to write extensive notes in the code. > > His recommendation for the finest .Net programming language is Eiffel: > http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/dotnet/eiffelsharp/ > > Jim >