From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/26
Date: 1999-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Feb26.104940.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b6c4q$7pa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7b6c4q$7pa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com writes:
> But Visual Basic could't really be considered a general-purpose programming
> language, could it? Perhaps "niche" isn't the right word, in the same way
> "minority" isn't the right word to describe women.
Visual Basic is certainly a general purpose programming language if
you restrict your purpose to writing applications on Windows (a fine
restriction for many programmers). Along with Delphi it is one of
the two best, insulating programmers from many C-isms of the OS APIs.
C and C++ are useful on Windows for writing non-applications, such
as device drivers, but Microsoft sees them mainly for software product
development, steering their end-user customer organizations toward
Visual Basic for application development.
Larry Kilgallen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-26 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-18 0:00 CompUSA New Policy David Botton
1999-02-24 0:00 ` schrader01
1999-02-24 0:00 ` DPH
1999-02-24 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` fmanning
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-02-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Tony Gair
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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