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Posted by JXStern on 08/22/05 03:23
On 21 Aug 2005 12:23:18 -0700, "topmind" <topmind@technologist.com>
wrote:
>> >One possible reason to generate code is for speed. Acting on meta data
>> >can be slow and Moores Law hasn't quite caught up just yet on some
>> >platforms/tools.
>>
>> Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrggghhhhhh!
>>
>> My current home workstation is about 4,000 times faster than were
>> typical minicomputers when I first discussed the automagic discussion
>> of CRUD screens, and CPU speed wasn't even an issue back then.
>
>But UI techniques and user expectations have also changed. For example,
>Query-By-Example was rare or limited back then, but almost always
>expected now.
Humbug. Dbase II did QBE on 4.77mhz, 64kb PCs.
Of course the databases weren't very big, had to fit on a 360kb
floppy, or at most a 10megabyte XT disk!
GUI? So what. My workstation isn't exactly busting a gut doing GUI
things for other programs.
If your Java Swing interface is doggy, it's doggy plus or minus any
metadata-driven considerations.
J.
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