fP modernization

[Henry Melancon]

THE END, I am out of here for the day......

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Terrible [mailto:tony at vegena.net] 
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 5:22 PM
To: Henry Melancon
Subject: Re: fP modernization


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Melancon" <hemelancon at gifinc.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 3:01 PM
Subject: RE: fP modernization


> 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
>
I never said anything about Access. Access is slow and clunky. But MySql

isn't and it does take less hard drive space then File Pro, not that
that is 
of any concern anymore. But again, as File Pro diehards always do they 
continually talk about some lame programmer they dealt with blah blah
blah. 
That's not really the point is it? It's the program it's self and what
it's 
capable of and what it does and there are good and bad programmers just
as 
there are good and bad plumbers. Doesn't mean we should stay with
outhouses 
because the plumber you hired didn't know how to fix the toilet. But
that's 
all you guys have in your defense. You can not tell me one single thing
that 
File Pro can do that I can be done using any programming langue you want
and 
any modern database. But I can give you a list of what can be done with
them 
that File Pro can't do. I am not trying to be condescending but really
your 
comparing apples to oranges. You might as well tell me that a Model T
Ford 
can do anything a new Lamborghini can do. They both have wheels, tires,
an 
engine but that's about where the similarity ends. I don't need to
convince 
you, convince yourself. Download MySql. Use File Pro's export to write
the 
data to a delimited text file then load it into MySql. First notice how
much 
faster it loads into MySql then it comes out of File Pro. Then type a
few 
SQL commands and see how fast the data comes. The of course sort it, add
it, 
count it all without using some stupid half assed report tool. Then tell
me 
that again. You can fool yourself all you want, I don't care. The fact
is 
there is no comparison. File Pro pales in comparison. For those of you
who 
want to stay in the past, my blessing. I'm not nor do I want to.