Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!3ce9497d!not-for-mail Reply-To: "David Cressey" From: "David Cressey" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory References: <_rXTe.9332$FW1.7976@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> <%R6Ue.27154$FA3.821@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Subject: Re: Describing the Janus Lines: 31 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:18:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.203.78 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1126293481 4.154.203.78 (Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:18:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:18:01 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:33555 "mountain man" wrote in message news:%R6Ue.27154$FA3.821@news-server.bigpond.net.au... > We have created an object, some years back, similar in nature > to what you describe above. I have posted about it previously. > I'm impressed by your description of LittleSteps. I expect you've had some success with it. 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.