Re: Shared game-data
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:58:12 GMT
Message-ID: <o855g.879$A26.24119_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
>
> This is exactly the problem. (And the opportunity!)
>
> The metaphor I sometimes use to think about the issue is
> that of continental drift. There have been two widely
> divergent environments, or continents if you will: business
> data management, and single-user application programming.
> Each has had decades to mature in isolation, and become
> highly refined in their own way. But there has been little
> or no knowledge transfer between the two groups.
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:58:12 GMT
Message-ID: <o855g.879$A26.24119_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Marshall Spight wrote:
>>Development tools designers don't know the RM so they don't take >>advantage on it.
>
> This is exactly the problem. (And the opportunity!)
>
> The metaphor I sometimes use to think about the issue is
> that of continental drift. There have been two widely
> divergent environments, or continents if you will: business
> data management, and single-user application programming.
> Each has had decades to mature in isolation, and become
> highly refined in their own way. But there has been little
> or no knowledge transfer between the two groups.
Lack of knowledge transfer is less of a problem than lack of knowledge and of education. Received on Sun Apr 30 2006 - 17:58:12 CEST