[Harbour-users] ORMs (from "thread" GUI programming)

[Roberto Lopez]

xProgrammer wrote:

<...>
>  If you judged languages by their popularity you wouldn't be using Harbour
> despite the fact
>  that its so wonderful a language.

xProgrammer,

If you read carefully my post, you'll note that I'M NOT judging VB by 
its popularity (that is only a side note about it).

<...>
 > I would also note that the popularity of VB is due to Microsoft's
 > marketing power
<...>

I'm not questioning MS marketing power, but, as you surely know, they 
failed many, many times trying to impose products and technologies, 
simply because those were not good enough.

IMHO, VB succedeed because it was (at least until 6.0 version) a great 
development tool.

Regarding Harbour, if you feel that I'm attacking it (through my 
opinions about Clipper), that was not my intention.

I loved dBase, I loved Fox and I loved Clipper too (despite some things:)).

I'm here because Harbour is great. Whitout a doubt, it is the best 
choice for whose that (like me) love xBase.

Finally, regarding OOP, I guess that we must open our minds to new ideas 
and programming paradigms.

To write an operating system service is a very different task that 
creating a simple database application.

IMHO, should be obvious for someone, that an unique programming 
model/paradigm, could be not able to suit the programmers needs for all 
situations.

Fortunately, many modern languages developers understand this.


Regards,

Roberto.