Re: Implementing Dataphor Providers in Visual Studio - Help!

On Dec 20, 8:03 pm, Ed Prochak <edproc..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 3:38 pm, steved..._at_hotmail.com wrote:
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>
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> > At:-
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> >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.programmi...
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> > Steve Dassin says:-
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> > "If you are truely a beginner then your brain hasn't been filled with
> > crazy
> > glue yet.
> > For application development check out Dataphor. "
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> > I am not yet proficient with SQL, and I'd like to avoid becoming
> > proficient with it. There are enough frustrated intellectuals banging
> > on about how inadequate it is for me to be virtually certain they're
> > right about Dataphor.
> []
>
> > I get the feeling I'm overlooking something horribly simple. :(
>
> > ------------------------
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> > Help!
>
> > Steve B.
>
> Why jump through hoops to avoid learning SQL?
>
> To be an engineer you need to learn the tools of the trade. To be a
> software engineer the tools are languages. SQL is just one more tool.
> As more Chem Professor used to say:
> "if it works, use it!"
>
> Ed

There are hoops in either direction. Why jump through hoops for a flawed, inferior language?

But yes, if these hoops prove too hard as it is looking like they might, I'll have to bodge the job with SQL

:(

Steve B. Received on Fri Dec 21 2007 - 00:35:59 CET