Re: ADO.NET 2.0 - ResultSet concerns

From: Cor Ligthert (notfirstname_at_planet.nl)
Date: 04/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 09:33:28 +0200

Hi Bill,

History always repeats.
When I started data processing, it was in the time of the punching cards.
People where sorting them column by column, when you have to do a lot of
columns and a hugs amount of cards that is hard labour.

There where also machines with which what you could do intelligent sequence
checking by making let say program boards (was with wires), took sometimes
time how to do it, but when you did know how, it was very easy to do (It
was collecting the good sequences into the others while creating let say
streams again from the wrongs ones).

I think you have seen messages enough from me to understand which way I
took. However, there where people in my environment who said I was only
lazy.

Then we got magnetic tape, that method that I did was of course also one of
the better methods to sort a tape. However, I did not like the magnetic
tape; I did like the disc and especially the disc that could read fast
randomly.

However, there where people who said using a random disc was not sure and
not as fast as a magnetic tape and they did use the magnetic disc as a tape.
(Do understand me; there are problems, which still can be done the best way
doing that.)

I can go on of course, but what I want to say is that there are companies
which have there biggest earnings from those people I tell you about. They
still have environments build on the principles of the punch card or
environments build on the time the students came in the computing business.

One of the things I have always like from Microsoft is that they did not
listen to those people who are stopping progression. I hope this will be the
same in future.

Just my thoughts about your message,

Cor

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