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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!zorch!news.aimnet.com!news From: KORO the Great <ksahin@easyaccess.com> Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no M$ AppleScript or Rexx imitations? Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 14:55:28 -0700 Organization: Smily-Soft Lines: 28 Message-ID: <31AF6AD0.438@easyaccess.com> References: <4on6de$9rj@orion.cybercom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.247.215.21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22808 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:108442 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:144178 comp.os.os2.advocacy:206561 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:110634 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50692 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20463 Jerry Shekhel wrote: > > 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". Configuration? With REXX, I just open up a text editor and start typing. It does what I want it to with no hassle (unless I made a typo). Why should one need to configure a batch script editor? It's a waste of time. -- KORO the Great