Agreed with everything Eliot said (and by now some others). Glad there are
still people like that around.
As without hearing statements like his and instead being pushed by market
and computer media, I am getting crazy all the time that I am not smart
enough to appreciate all those new great technologies. And for the same
reason I tend from time to time to try to learn one of them, usually only to
get frustrated again. Last one was DCOM and after the pleasure of learning
it (and obvioulsly looking at some other things), I am now leaning towards
... *yes* my own simple TCP/IP client and server.
Sure, Eliot, some people may not understand what you are talking about. The
reason for this is that most of the software is written for something which
*does not* have to work 24x7 and/or always *does* have some kind of IS
people around. When another *new technology* is to be used : Consultant or
Support people will spend time to set it up. When it crashes, they will
come and fix it. And the users are all trained these days that the software
*does not" have to work. It should, but ... sometimes it does not. That is
the part of "today's technology".
I have to admit that most of "new technologies" I am talking about here are
rather coming from MS, not from Borland. But anyway, sometimes I think that
if computer journalists were obliged to have IS education and/or experience,
before they write anything, we might have had much better situation in the
technology now. Can you imagine that all magazines are mentioning say COM
only as "unproved initiative from MS". And how about Windows at its first
years : "Flaky graphical environment not worth looking at". We might have
had a chance to write apps for some better OS right now.
Just wanted to get it out.
Cheers
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