slightly OT (Re: Re: [development] Data API)

[Scott Trudeau]

> A bike never makes a good plane, and a plane is not
> very suitable for your daily groceries.

You know, the Wright Brothers started out with a bicycle shop and
invented an airplane!

http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/wright_bicycles.htm

Just sayin'. :)

Scott

On 9/13/06, Bèr Kessels <ber at webschuur.com> wrote:
> Op woensdag 6 september 2006 21:22, schreef adrian rossouw:
> > There are at least a dozen MAJOR concerns this will allow us to
> > cleanly and consistently resolve,
> > and many dozens more new features we will be able to implement
> > because of a system like this.
>
> API^2 or the CGB (collective gangbang) sounds wonderfull... but...
>
> Why use Drupal as the base? Why use PHP? Why start off with a system that has
> a long history which stands in the way of such huge changes? Why use a
> programming language that is known for its horrible support of true
> abstraction?
>
> Yes, what I am saying is: a proper[1] from-scratch-development instead of
> hacking stuff into something (Drupal) that was never meant to carry all such
> high-level technical systems. Drupal is designed to be *simple* (not using
> OO, convention over configuration, simple apis) adding complex stuff to
> it, "just doesn't fit".
>
> To me all this FAPI/API2 feels like bolting a Jet-engine, Fly-by-wire-controls
> and all that, to that bycicle which has been perfect to do the shopping with!
> If we need more then getting our grocery, then we should not add a jet-engine
> to the bike, nor add complex controls, instead we'd best get ourself that
> plane we really need. A bike never makes a good plane, and a plane is not
> very suitable for your daily groceries.
>
> Bèr
>
> [1] meaning: start off with a good DB-architecture design, design all the
> object-relation mappings, add a pinch of modularity, boil it in the
> collective-cooker, and serve it with a fresh sauce.
>
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