[DUG] The BDE API formerly known as the Paradox Engine
Robert martin
rob at wildsoft.co.nz
Wed Jun 13 13:43:30 NZST 2007
> 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!
>
>
That and the fact that whenever the BDE needs to do some processing it
creates temporary Paradox tables :)
> 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?
>
>
And the fact the Borland / Imprise / Boralnd / Codegear hasn't put any
real dev work into maintaining it in the last 10 (?) years :)
Rob
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