Re: Just done my first app in Forms!

[Quoted] Hi Daniel

[Quoted] You got me wrong. I compared Access (with VBA) with Forms (with PL/SQL) as a front-end developing tool.
[Quoted] [Quoted] There is no way Access can compare with Oracle as a RDBMS

[Quoted] [Quoted] I admit that as a newbie, my codes are inevitably lengthy and not so concise. But I also doubt that it can be shrunk to that size of a few hundred lines.

Nick

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3DA5C599.4DE12E47_at_exesolutions.com...
> Nick wrote:
>
> > Just done (yeah, almost, unless some bugs discovered) my first app in
Oracle
> > Forms 6i
> > It's a pretty simple system and yet I needed to code around 2,000 lines
> >
> > Having used Access for some time, my impression is that Access wins
hands
> > down in developing front-ends.
> >
> > Forms 6i has a lot of small annoyance, and not as intuitive as Access.
> >
> > Can someone give me a reason or two I should still stick with Forms
then?
> >
> > Nick
>
> My impression is that like most newbies you wrote 1900 lines of
superfluous code
> because you didn't know how to take advantage of built-in capabilities
like
> inheritance.
>
> I just finished a Forms application for an organization of about 1,800
people
> involving work flow management, time keeping, and billing and doubt I
wrote more
> than 500. And anytime you can get 1800 people simultaneously working with
your
> Access database ... write a paper about it and have it published.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 13:37:28 CEST