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From: jerry@cybercom.net (Jerry Shekhel)
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Subject: Re: Why no M$ AppleScript or Rexx imitations?
Date: 31 May 1996 16:23:10 GMT
Organization: Cyber Access Internet Communications, Inc.
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Daniel Haskell (Fesinc@cris.com) wrote:
: :
: : What's Visual Basic? And what exactly is OLE Automation? VB is
: : not included in any variety of Windoze, as far as I know. And is VB
: : *anything* like the old computer language "BASIC"? The one that still
: : gets included with DOS?
:
: Visual Basic is a typical MS product - it looks good until you try to use
: it for something real. I deleted it off my system after about the 100th
: crash. It was incredible, sometimes all it took was to move the mouse!
: Picture this: Ten lines of code, which haven't been executed yet, I move
: the mouse and VB aborts... (and NO, I have not had this problem with other
: Windows applications. It is *not* a configuration problem. It is just
: shitty software).
:
No. VB has its share of problems, but what you're describing is *definitely*
a configuration problem. VB is the most widely used development environment
today, used mostly for internal development, prototyping, and front ends.
Like it or not, a *lot* of people use it for "something real".
--
Jerry J. Shekhel
jerry@cybercom.net
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"Is maith liom Mi Mheain an tSamhraidh." - M. Ni Chobhthaigh