Re: Pear DB Tutorial
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:28:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Pear DB Tutorial | ||
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John Lim wrote:
>
> This seems silly. Why write a wrapper around a wrapper. Simply redesign PEAR
> DB. The number of people posting to this mailing list would suggest it
> wouldn't affect a lot of people.
I don't think so, in the four days the tutorial is on-line I getted more
than 800 entries. Hey, I didn't tell its existance anywhere except here
in pear-dev.
> Seriously, people should look at what Microsoft is doing with Microsoft.NET
> and their ADO+ classes. Beats PEAR DB and many other database wrappers
> (including the one I wrote, ADODB) in strength and power. Microsoft have a
> lot of experience with database wrappers, eg. ODBC, ADO, RDO, etc. Some of
> them were failures, but the work was always interesting.
>
Please, you as technologist reviewer can tell me, what are this
fantastic ideas MS is doing? (please don't point me to read some
marketing advertisement).
Tomas V.V.Cox