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Early '90s, VBA was awesome. I never understood two of Microsoft's owngoals: 1) The lack of a migration path from workgroup (LAN) to client-server for Access
by specialist 3y ago
Early '90s, VBA was awesome.
I never understood two of Microsoft's owngoals:
1) The lack of a migration path from workgroup (LAN) to client-server for Access et al. So dumb. SQL Server should have become a first class citizen of Access. Or Access become a viable front-end end to SQL Server. Where swapping JET and MSSQL was a drop-in no-brainer. (Maybe that happened later...)
2) Not unifying tabular data. And then make Excel and Access "modalities" (?) for accessing that data. Lotus' Symphony (successor to 1-2-3) was so awesome; hybrid database and spreadsheet. aka The Correct Answer™. And Symphony was on DOS! (Lotus' Improv was even cooler. I wish I knew why it didn't succeed.)
I guess all this ML data pipeline Parquet NumPy stuff finally separated tabular data from how it's used. Yay.
I haven't used the Microsoft stack in anger since late '90s, when Java emerged, so maybe the .Net/CLR reboot mooted my complaints.
I never had the chance to use Borland's tools (Paradox, QuattroPro) in anger, so don't know if they did any better.