Re: When MV is not an option
- From: Glen <nospamwebmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:48:11 -0500
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:27:36 GMT, "Peter McMurray"
<excalibur21@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi
>I strongly recommend that one reads Albert's piece about the use of Access
>objects before throwing aspersions. Pick as used by a lot of people who
>have made a lot of money is very poorly implemented but it is a graet
>environment. Just because someone uses a screwdriver to stir paint does not
>mean that it is a useless tool.
>
>Personally I have always written event driven programming in Pick using a
>4gl of our own design. My maintenance is minimal and my productivity
>terrific. Also there is no black box junk in my code it can be maintained
>without the tool. However the most important rules I have ever been taught
>are
>
>Initialise everything.
>Write the user instructions first.
>
>If you do not have an overall plan with the files/tables and their uses
>mapped out you can muck anything up.
> Djikstra is particularly silly. Properly planned productivity is the only
>proper way to program in any language . C is a classic example of a language
>that nobody should be allowed to use for normal commercial code. Even the
>writer cannot understand it 6 months later in most cases.
>My two pennorth
>Peter McMurray
What language do you think that browser or newsreader you are using
right now was written in? It definately wasn't Visual Basic. My guess
is that it was Visual C++. BTW, I have no problem reading C code that
is properly commented and modularized as it should be. I've seen the
extreme worse top-down gosub spaghetti code in dealings with Pick.
Glen
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