Ed Leafe wrote: > I should clarify: the 'users' of Dabo are programmers and > developers, not the folks commonly referred to as 'end-users'. As I said I follow along the list skipping some stuff and might have missed a change in direction.
I thought the object was to end up with a VFP like environment? Surely, in VFP, you never have to program in the language it was written in? If VFP is at all like Filemaker then the user can design an app with minimal programming skills. I am not saying that if dabo is not what I have described above is a bad thing. Just looking for clarification. Also, some of the debate on this topic indicates one of the problems with open source - there are just too many different ways to do things. I can already here shouts of, "Well, that's a good thing". Let me make an analogy to show why less is sometimes more. Music, at least 'Western' music uses a very limited part of the sound spectrum. Yet what seems a restriction allows the creation of great beauty and great complexity. If everyone was free to tune there instrument to whatever part of the sound spectrum they chose there would be very little music and it would be rather simple. Most of all it would be rather sad as it would be an individual activity. Choosing a tool for RAD DB development, a tool like VPF or Filemaker, imposes this kind of limited spectrum. Sometimes (speaking for Filemaker here) one is frustrated by the limits but those limits, that framework does allow one to get on with the job, Norman _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
