Re: Describing the Janus
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:18:01 GMT
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"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
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> We have created an object, some years back, similar in nature
I'm impressed by your description of LittleSteps. I expect you've had some
success with it.
> to what you describe above. I have posted about it previously.
>
As I understand it, the Janus has a very different purpose than LittleSteps.
The purpose of the Janus is not to obviate the need for application
programming, but to enable application programs and SQL databases to
collaborate more easily and cheaply than is presently the case. Whether or
not an information system has any need for some real programming, or
whether the entire functionality can be built by simply plugging a database,
a froms package, a report generator, and a user interface together, is a
question that desreves separate study.
I'm taking it for granted that the future of programming is going to
continue to trend in the direction of OOP, and that the direction of large,
shared databases is going to continue to trend if the direction of SQL.
Those are arguable propositions, but I need to make some assumptions in
order to make some headway.