From: Brock Weaver <brockweaver@...>
Date: 2005-09-16T03:32:21+09:00
Subject: Re: MS Access

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Steve,

Welcome, fellow rubyist!

It is great that you are choosing ruby as your language to learn=20
programming. It is a very powerful, robust language. But like the Uncle in=
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Spiderman says, "With great power comes great responsibility". This means=
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you may have to take a little longer to learn some things in ruby than you=
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would in other languages. But in the long run, it will be *well* worth it.

Just be patient, motivated, and stay optimistic. Post questions to this=20
list, no matter how "easy" you may think they are -- everybody here is very=
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supportive and prompt.

Good luck, and stick with it man!

On 9/15/05, Phlip <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Steve wrote:
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> > I'm considering learning Ruby. I have no programming experience yet. I
> > was wondering if it's possibly to write applications in Ruby that can=
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> use
> > and change the data in my MS Access files.
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> Absolutely. Database are designed to access a wide warehouse of data=20
> through
> a narrow interface. Narrow interfaces are easy to port to new languages.
> Ruby will see tables of data, just like Visual Basic or C++ will.
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> Google Ruby DBI DAO or Ruby DBI ADO.
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> --
> Phlip
> http://www.greencheese.org/ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!!
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Brock Weaver
brockweaver@gmail.com

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