[Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Myles Wakeham schrieb:

> Growing old is hard to do, but its inevitable.  If you have kids, you'd 
> know how hard it is to tell a teenager anything.  You have to let them 
> think they are discovering something you already know, and then they'll 
> get it thinking it was their idea.  Identity building & ego is far more 
> important to a younger developer that your great code.  Its a strange 
> trait of us humans.  If only we were machines....

Well spoken :-)

Maieutics is a very old technique, still worth to study a bit 
(wikipedia). The essence (here) is to lead people gently into the 
right(?) direction, based on own experience, and then make them provide 
their own solutions. Once such a solution came out, one can check it for 
compatibility with known problems, so that it can result in another or 
improved version.

Microsoft BTW insisted in making all the well known errors themselves 
again, in the design of Windows, Office etc. We would have much less 
trouble with compatibility to legacy code, establishing poor interfaces 
or data structures, when people would have a closer look at preceding 
work of others, before starting to do it their own way (out of thin 
air). OTOH such knowlege can block new ideas, once one sucked up old 
useful models.


But younger people have similar problems, in convincing older people 
that things can be done better now, in different ways from the old ones. 
Habits are cobwebs first, then cables :-(

DoDi