Re: Just done my first app in Forms!

[Quoted] Just curious

[Quoted] If you start working as a full-time Forms (& Reports) developer, **on the average** how long would it take

from "I can do this" to "I can do this beautifully"?

"Nick" <aroughguy_at_nsp.toughguy.net> wrote in message news:WJyp9.14586$Sr6.462746_at_ozemail.com.au...
> Hi Daniel
>
> You got me wrong. I compared Access (with VBA) with Forms (with PL/SQL) as
a
> front-end developing tool.
> There is no way Access can compare with Oracle as a RDBMS
>
> 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 - 14:15:33 CEST