Mike
Your are a man after my own heart if something is good and it does the
job then why change. My experience with different versions of VB and
applications
breaking because the new DDL have the same name as the old DDL has given me
heart burn.
Those walnet muffins sound good.
By the way Anne Gillihan's Book inside R:BASE is my bible. I have not seen
her
in this place for some time.
Regards
Victor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Mike Byerley
> Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2001 4:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IF VB IS SO GOOD WHY ARE YOU USING RBASE!
>
>
> Thanks Ben for being closer to the intent of my post. Manuel, you are so
> far off from what I wrote.
>
> I use the same plumber for all my projects since 1979. Same for the HVAC.
> Same electrician since 1985.
> Eat at the same restaurant for breakfast since 1982 (still the same
> breakfast of oatmeal).
> When my wife and I enter the Wendys for lunch a couple of miles from our
> house, our order is being prepared before we get to the register.
> Every Thursday when I walk into the Mill (bakery) the girl puts a banana
> walnut muffin on the counter as I approach.
> I have been to the Reno Air Races every September for the past 17
> years and
> stay at the same hotel and eat at the same coffee shop every morning
> (oatmeal again).
> I have purchased every upgrade to RBase since 2.11
> I have purchased almost every product offered by Microrim and RBTI.
> I never owned Access until I bought Office97.
> I have never offered Access as an alternative database to a customer.
>
> You could construe these things to be that I am an extreme
> creature of habit
> (cannot deny this to a degree) or you could look at it as I am
> loyal to the
> people that have provided good service and products to me and the greatest
> compliment I can bestow upon them is my continuing support to
> them for their
> efforts.
> You could even take an extreme view an say I am deficient in some way and
> may need help.
> You can make of it anything you want.
>
> I have business principles and personal principles that I have rigorously
> applied all of my adult life. I cannot find in those principles any
> reference that says it is OK to lie, cheat, steal, or be dishonest in any
> way. Enforcing this discipline has been expensive to me personally, but I
> can walk into any business, movie theater, restaurant, or down any street
> without having to avert my eyes when I see someone because I
> stabbed them in
> the back. Don't read this as complaining that I have been left penniless.
> On the contrary, even with the setbacks, it has left me well off by any
> standard today and I am easily goaded up on my soapbox when I hear people
> talk about someone getting ahead because they pulled off a good one on
> someone, or screwed someone out of something. I believe in Karma buddy.
> You get back what you put out x 10.
>
> I never stopped programming in RBase and I don't know how anything I have
> ever posted would lead someone to think so.
> I am no more fond of VB as a tool to compliment my database efforts than
> Larry is of Delphi. You could read that as Larry and I are both
> fond of our
> respective choices in tools that complement our work. The question was
> asked simply of what should someone do that is just embarking on a project
> to convert an RBase app to a web app, VB or Tango. I postulated
> MY view on
> the subject from what I KNOW about it. It was a view only. I
> certainly was
> a long way from chiseling it into stone tablets.
>
> I do not wish to carry this thread further and respond to the
> characterizations of VB7 or VB.Net. Any person that is
> interested in those
> technologies can certainly find sufficient resources on the web (as I have
> advised previously) to make an informed decision about his or her usage of
> them. I apologize for only suggesting VB.net as an alternative
> but I think
> that is the question that was asked. I cannot, make that will not,
> apologize for who or what I am. I just am and it took 57 years to do it.
>
> mike
>
> PS. to All:
> If you find yourself reluctant to consider New Stuff, here is
> some food for
> thought.
> http://www.devx.com/devxpress/gurl.asp?i=1X4547555X20640
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Manuel de Aguiar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:44 AM
> Subject: IF VB IS SO GOOD WHY ARE YOU USING RBASE!
>
>
> > Hello Mike,
> > Oh BOY .........
>
>
>
