Since we're OT already, I have to interject a good Jamie Zawinski database quote:
=========== It was a hard sell, since he's a database person, and as far as I've seen, once those database worms eat into your brain, it's hard to ever get anything practical done again. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. =========== tom -----Original Message----- From: Steve Downey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:52 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: Differences between Structs and Turbine ??? On Wednesday 09 October 2002 07:18 pm, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > On 9/10/02 3:47, "Berin Loritsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even when Quick and Dirty takes longer. I tried to convince my boss that > > a certain "customization" required so many fundamental changes that it > > would be quicker and easier to develop/maintain if we did it right. He > > told me that he would never be able to convince the CEO that was the > > right choice, so the "Quick and Dirty" route was the choice--taking me > > twice as long to get it done. > > I got out of the same tie today, but I won! :-) And it was about Objects in > PL-SQL... That was a close one! :-) > Objects in PL-SQL. I still have nightmares. SQLJ and Oracle's Object extensions were so seductive. <shudder> And I'm in the camp that thinks the ad going around with the snail/cheetah <=> Relational/Object just shows that most OO developers are ignorant regarding the relational model. > Pier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
