Re: looks like some web developers are getting back into 4GL environment...

The development style is remarkably similiar to oracle forms. It really is worth looking into. Its still new, but it has alot of potential.

• Original Message ----- From: Niall Litchfield To: amwilson_at_iinet.net.au Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:42 AM Subject: Re: looks like some web developers are getting back into 4GL environment...

  On 11/18/05, amwilson_at_iinet.net.au <amwilson_at_iinet.net.au> wrote:     I suspect many on this list may have a problem with some of the attitudes     surrounding this particular methodology.

  Including me, certainly the soundbites around it suggest someone inventing something new before understanding something old.

  I did like the quote from the article though (emphasis mine)

  "His software, Ruby on Rails, only out for a little more than a year, has started a buzz among the legions of developers and high-level executives that track the trend-driven world of software development. "   To be fair though, the software seems deliberately aimed at the small scale, non mission critical web environments that litter the place today, I nearly said the LAMP market, but there is an ASP equivalent in the windows world.

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