[DUG] The BDE API formerly known as the Paradox Engine

[Alister Christie]

I think the biggest problem with the BDE is that it works - or at least 
can be made to work, if it was truly broken then people (like myself) 
would be forced to shift - rather than keep putting it off.

Alister Christie
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Paul Heinz wrote:
> Robert Martin wrote: 
>
>   
>> Moving from BDE to a relational database is a BIG step.  We 
>> use IBOjects which has BDE replacement components that is 
>> very good.  However you would have to leave paradox behind at 
>> that point.
>>
>> BDE SUCKS big time.  Although I was AMAZED to read that 
>> CodeGear is developing a BDE like replacement for a future 
>> Delphi !!!!!!  I was stunned.  Obviously enough people still 
>> use the BDE to make this an attraction.
>>     
>
> Just to play Devil's Advocate a bit, it's not that the underlying
> concept of the BDE is inherently a bad idea. Namely, navigational to
> relational mapping - it's not original to the BDE by any stretch - it's
> more that the BDE is SUCH a badly flawed implementation of the concept.
>
> It's obvious to me that BDE (or IDAPI if you remember it's previous
> incarnation) 'grew' out of the Paradox Engine API kit that Borland once
> sold - I know that since we one of the few companies who appear to have
> actually bought a copy!
>
> So IDAPI and the BDE are fundamentally crippled by underlying
> 'Paradox-isms' (such as Null is the same as Empty string) which have
> never been addressed and then ever more layers of code have been piled
> on top of these bad foundations in various attempts to fix earlier badly
> designed layers that can now never be removed. Cached Updates anyone?
>
> I pity any Codegear developer assigned to work on the BDE codebase. It
> probably violates the Geneva Convention for 'cruel and inhumane
> treatment equivalent to torture'. Mind you, Microsoft could probably get
> the DOJ (who seems to be their friend now) to argue that Codegear
> developers are patent-violating 'unlawful enemy combatants' so it's
> either GITMO or the BDE for them. 
>
> Good code is released, bad code just escapes!
>
> TTFN,
>   Paul.
>
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