Re: Developer 2000 vs Delphi

Gordon E. Hooker <gordonh_at_acslink.net.au> writes:  

>Rick Rutt <rrutt_at_delphi.com> wrote:
>
>>Forget about doing any serious interactive debugging in Oracle Forms.
>>The Forms debugger is QUITE inferior to those in Borland Delphi or
>>Microsoft Access.
>
>That is what I like about those toy tools, they put in a really good debugger so
>you think you are getting a really good tool.
 

Don't make me laugh so much!  

These days, any tool without a usable interactive debugger is only one step away from punched cards. Oracle Forms make us resort to embeddeding temporary messages to determine the actual flow of control; the tools you refer to as "toys" let us actually observe the flow of control in a very convenient manner.  

Some people still think personal computers are "toys", and only "big iron" can compute in a business environment. Oracle Forms has features that continue to present that "big iron" mentality -- heavy and cumbersome to work with.  

• Rick --

(Rick Rutt is a system architect living and working in Midland, Michigan.) Received on Wed Jul 24 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST