Hi,
If database connectivity was currently available, I believe you would most
certainly significantly reduce your development effort by using REBOL.
Since you say:
>I have the luxury of waiting for REBOL to develop abit as the data
>normalization should take a bit longer to do. Any thoughts
you may want to wait.
Remember that REBOL is a programming language, and you do have the option
of working around the missing database support by:
1. exporting db records as tab or comma delimited files, or
2. using REBOL's port mechanism to interface to a database of your choice.
3. Depending on the size of your database, you may even consider using
REBOL to store and retrieve the records.
re 2. If I'm not mistaken, FoxPro uses a dbf type file structure. If
FoxPro's file structure is documented, or there are libraries available
that will access FoxPro's database from a C or C++ program, you can
probably "roll your own" REBOL-2-FoxPro interface (and publish the code on
rebol.org ;-).
Or perhaps your employer will sponsor an OpenSource effort to create a
native FoxPro REBOL interface?
At 01:13 PM 1/24/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi:
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>Now that /View has been defined a little better for us, I wanted to get the
>list's opinion about the project that I have on my desk and whether Rebol
>might be appropiate for it.
>My employer has written a professional time accounting package directed at
>the legal profession. Right now I'm in the process of converting the data
>from propietary ISAM structures into DBF's with the necessary data
>normalization. I want to roll out an application that will work within a
>traditional firm network, and over the internet with very little rewrite
>between the two versions. Right now the languages that I'm considering
>are:
>Visual Foxpro - there is a third party package that converts the VFP forms
>to HTML forms.
>handles data and persistance.
>Java - don't know much about this - but its the lingua franca of the
>internet. Generally, I don't like the language structure.
>Smalltalk - either IBM, Cincom, or Squeak also don't know much - but looks
>like fun.
>REBOL - I've read the 10 steps - and followed the discussion. I realize
>that the Database support is not there yet, but it looks very promising.
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;- Elan >> [: - )]
