filePro slides at SCOForum

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>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Walter Vaughan shouted:
>
> What is "Window side ODBC"? Was that a typo describing fpODBC
> functionality?

Sounds like another way of saying Windows-only ODBC, or ODBC only from the
Windows side.

> When they mentioned sockets, what kind of examples did they
> show? Anything where filePro did any of the lifting?

I don't know what they presented.  I wouldn't even attend linux forums when
I had a lot of friends going, so I sure as hell didn't attend SCOForum
where I don't like the company and know hardly anyone. :)

That said, fP's sockets can handle both client and server roles.  It would
be a cold day in hell before I attempted to write an asynchronous
multi-connection server in fP, as the architecture really isn't conduscive
to doing it correctly.  But it can do a server role, and I've seen someone
utilise it in this role.  They play fast and loose with a few assumptions
and don't necessarily code to my level of fault tolerance, but we have
differing backgrounds.

Client coding should be (is) trivial.

> Did they show any example of how or what XML will be integrated into
> filePro?  Native option in import/export commands?

Okay, you know...I've never really done any illicit drugs--don't believe in
it for myself.  But you're starting to tempt me to ask what you use and who
your supplier is. :) :) :) :)  You're actually optimistic enough to believe
there would ever be a generic import module for it?  I've considered a
processing-side one more than a few dozen times.  The sheer permutations,
while they all follow concrete rules, make it a very, VERY daunting
proposition.

And export...why?  It's easy to bang it out with raw I/O commands.  Not
seeing the point in a specific export type for it, myself.

> -- Walter P.S.  Having to learn Java/XML/SQL at the same time right now
> would have been a lot easier if my grey matter were 10 years younger.

I did Perl and SQL at the same time.  Similar.  I, too, wished my brain had
been about that much younger.  Things came so much easier back then.  I had
the additional handicap, however, of a lifetime of top-down coding and
-zero- OO experience.  I got over that pretty quickly.  Best tutorial that
ever got it through to me was the perl OO Tutorial.  I'd tried Core Java
from Sun Press, OO Programming for Dummies, and a few other things.
Nothing clicked.  Finally I read this and it was like an epiphany.  All the
concepts fit into place.  It was only my 9th attempt at learning it, give
or take.  So basically I learned perl, SQL, and OO concepts more or less
all at once.  I have to concur.  Doing it at 20 instead of 30 would have
worked so much better.

Luck on that!

mark->