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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 10:36, you wrote:
What is special about Paradox (and for that matter all Windows databases that I have encountered) is that the GUI is built in as part of the program. There is no need to call up a separate GUI program and then link them. This is what makes Paradox et al so much easier to set up. I have yet to find a Linux database that does the same thing. Anyone....??
I am lead to believe by my reading, and I suppose some accumulation of experience, that this is actually a part of the Unix (and therefore Linux) engineering tradition. So a feature, a condition, a philosophy, rather than a lack. My Windows database experience - which includes writing a reasonably promising GP record system - I've used it but would not yet inflict it on anyone else willingly, and some straightforward database stuff - is that Access is useful for speeding up the working out of tables and joins, but that if one wants anything like performance and cleverness then writing the code in Visual basic is the best plan (of those available to non-C programmers like me.) So one then has a backend which is the Access database/engine, bound to the front end which is the GUI and much of the business rules. You need to make a point I'd say, that in the same way that <deep breath> Emacs is required to be a huge program, because one could not assemble all the Vi sized programs required to do that mega-job, that there is a reason for monlithising an existing or new database with an existing or new front end. Alternatively, is the need for a development or design environment that doesn't do the work, but does autmatically assemble certain components of the eventual product. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.