vslabs_at_onwe.co.za (Billy Verreynne) wrote in message news:<1a75df45.0309061302.d9119fa_at_posting.google.com>...
> joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote
>
> > How 'bout editable .inp files for forms? :-)
>
> One thing that I have never done, and never will do, is Forms. Unless
> there is really a very rude and totally obscene amount of cold green
> cash involved. :-)
>
> What I would like is a Delphi VM in Oracle, instead of PL/SQL. Wet
> dream stuff I know, but Delphi is rude and very obescene when it comes
> to OO kewlness and freakily good features. Add a thin client
> "Oracle/Delphi browser" to the mix and you have everything the web,
> HTTP and Java fail to offer.
>
> This whole "thin client architecture" using HTTP and Java and what not
> reminds me of aviation wanting something that was to become the helo.
> They tried all kinds of VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) designs
> using fixed prop, fixed/tilting wing designs. Then a man called
> Sikorski step up to the challenge and did something that made no
> purist engineering sense. He build a system where you drive a tail
> rotor by stealing power from the main rotor system in order to provide
> anti-torque stability.. and he introduced the cyclic and collective
> controls.
>
> Helo designs of today still follow approach..
>
> Web services, web tier, web-enabling.. that is no different from the
> old VTOL designs using the conventional purist approach in an attempt
> to solve a problem.. one that is not even clearly defined. And they
> conveniently forgot that we have had thin-client architectures back in
> the 80's and 70's. They were called mainframes using block character
> devices as thin clients. And it worked pretty damn well.
>
> Er.. got a bit side tracked here. BTW, read up on old man Sikorski. He
> was an amazing engineer with a very different approach to solving
> problems. He would have been a hell of a software/database "engineer".
Damn straight!!
Received on Wed Sep 10 2003 - 08:55:33 CDT
