[REBOL] Re: RFC: Forms generator / RAD dialect
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 25-Aug-2002 12:02
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> On Behalf Of Gabriele Santilli
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:38 PM
> To: Robert M. Muench
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: RFC: Forms generator / RAD dialect
> Never released publicly, because it's not really finished.
> If you are really interested, I can send it to you so
> you can have a look.
Hi, yes please. It's always good to see different implementations.
> As I said, it was written only to fit my needs thus not
> publicly released; however, as times goes on, I'm going to
> try to make it more generic; so, even if my code will
> not be useful to your project, maybe I can contribute some
> thoughts. :-)
I hope so. There was a discussion some time ago about the "associative
data model". IMO that's the killer way to go for IOS! And that's what I
now going to implement. I use the "associative data model", business
objects, relations etc. and want to build a generic application to
handle all kind of business requirements. I don't see why we need
specialized applications? The next thing will be to generate the
appropriate GUI on the fly. IMO we need specialized GUI's depending on
what you want to see, do etc. But the data model should be completely
decoupled.
> You're right, but that might then set compatibility
> requirements with badly designed early code... ;-)
No, no. Compatibility is way to much overestimated. Just provide some
migration tools ;-))
> I will probably be asking questions in the future then,
> since discovering the limits of such an approach is what my
> teacher is interested in. :-)
No problem. Just let me know. Robert
