fP modernization

[Henry Melancon]

Yeah, right.  Access is just so much faster and takes up way less
space!!!!  If you believe that, I got property on the moon for sale.  I
dealt with an Access programmer on a project.  He took too long to
program, even with all the little Microsoft bells and whistles.  He
never gave me what I really wanted, only what Microsoft said I
needed.....

Henry

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Terrible [mailto:tony at vegena.net] 
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:40 PM
To: Henry Melancon
Subject: Re: fP modernization


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Melancon" <hemelancon at gifinc.com>
To: "Anthony Terrible" <tony at vegena.net>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:16 PM
Subject: RE: fP modernization


> There is always room for improvement and if we can improve Filepro to
> make it even easier to use than it already is, why not ask?????
>
There's not. But to be honest with you, in my opinion, the improvements
have 
been too little too late and then some of them just don't work at all,
like 
the blob fields. I don't believe necessarily that File Pro is easy to
use. 
The code is simplistic and severely limits a programmers ability, it's 
difficult to read and maintain, it's not easily re-usable. Will File Pro
do 
most of what anyone would want? Absolutely. But there are many things it

will not do and the proof of that is everyone's continually asking for
those 
improvements. When the rest of the world is already there. I just think
that 
most people on the list haven't looked outside there door to see what's 
there. Maybe it's not right for them to change now, but maybe it is and
if 
you don't look you'll never know. My personal situation is that our
system 
is broken and will need to be re-written. Why in the world would I
suggest 
doing it in File Pro? It will take just as long, be just as hard and
when 
I'm done my employees are still looking at DOS like screens that most
are 
unfamiliar with and you can only be 1 places at a time? For a small 
organization File Pro may very well be cost effective but for a global 
corporation such as ours I don't believe that it is. And whether anyone 
wants to believe it or not File Pro is slow and uses way too much hard
drive 
space. I can retrieve records 100 times faster and file size is on the 
average 15% smaller. You can verify this for yourself.