RE: [WEB400] Re: Re: Modify the IE Browser

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think XML is turning out to be fairly revolutionary, though kludgy.  It
has definitely changed the face of programming and from what I know nothing
preceded exactly what it is trying to accomplish.  You can look at the other
markup languages that it was derived from, but those didn't have near the
impact nor base infrastructure.

I haven't experienced as much as others on this list, I just gather what I
can by reading about computer history here and there.

Just a possibility I guess,
Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:32 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Re: Re: Modify the IE Browser


> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> the only real intellectual addition to programming that I've
> seen in my career is object orientation.

Now we're seeing inheritance and polymorphism overly used in so many new
frameworks, leading to large new vocabularies, just to describe the paradigm
shift promoted therein.

> Can you think of others?  Things that
> really changed how programming works?

Perhaps when multi line terminals replaced single line terminals.  No more
prompting for one field at a time.

I recall one user who kept wondering why the cursor kept leaping from one
location to another on the screen when the Enter (Field Exit) key was
pressed.  He kept expecting a new prompt at the bottom of the screen,
wondering why previous prompts wouldn't scroll upward and eventually out of
view.

Maybe adapting to an optical mouse with a scroll wheel would be easier ;-)

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com


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