RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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

Agreed, Leif.  I can (as I'm sure others can as well) do this with eRPG,
COBOL, Perl, any CGI programming language as well.  The key is programming
ahead for it.  No programming when the record is added, but there WAS
programming ahead of time. 

Brad
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