Re: What About Price vs. Performance?

Leif, you're just doing your typical argument-baiting now.  You KNOW what I 
meant: no Java or HTML programming.  I specified that in the very next sentence 
- or do you respond on a sentence by sentence basis?  Sheesh.  Talk about 
splitting hairs.  And, no, I don't particularly think that adding a record like 
this:

Library: MYLIB
File: MYFILE
Field: MYFIELD
OnValue: Y
OffValue: N

...qualifies as Java or HTML programming.  Or even as programming, except in 
the most over-analytical, strict-term definition.  In that definition, using a 
cash machine is programming.  And I long ago came to realize that the people 
who insist on the strictest definitions in their arguments are the ones least 
likely to be open to anything new.

Joe


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:09:30 -0500

>> The primary benefit of my Java approach is that I can add one record to a
database file and change a field into a dropdown list or a checkbox rather
than an entry field.  No programming required

Someone once tried to convince me that his product/tool/system was better
than
everybody else's.  His argument was: "With my system, no programming is
required,
you just give the computer its instructions".

Surely, you did have to do "something". That something (no matter what it is)
*is* programming. It might be in a different language, different form,
whatever,
but it is programming nevertheless.

Leif

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