There's a fog along the horizon, a strange glow in the sky…

[pne]

It looks as if I have a task to do now… working together with one other colleague on a new project. Something involving an MS Access database; I'll have to read the documentation now to see what the project is about exactly. My colleague said he'd like to implement the project in Java. See what happens.

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[nik-w.livejournal.com]

> My colleague said he'd like to implement the project in Java

Nooo - not Java! *runs for the hills*

[pne.livejournal.com]

Relax; it could be worse.

We might get to do it in Visual Basic / VBA for Access.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

At University, we had to use VB3! Very Windows 3.1-esque. Lots of dragging big chunky buttons onto a canvas and then selecting blocks of code from a library - that sort of approach is bad enough for web pages, but not for actual applications! Nasty stuff indeed.

Java is my pet hate in terms of programming languages - I just think it is hideous and bloated. I'm quite sure that anything you can do in Java you can do in Perl/TK, C, or C++ - it's just evil!:p

[pne.livejournal.com]

It looks as if there was a misunderstanding; it's not going to be a web application, so Java/PHP/etc are not an option anyway.

It'll probably be a straight Access-based application; hence, VBA. Whee.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Glad you didn't put "Simple Access-based" there, as there's nothing simple about Access!:D Good old VBA:)