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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/26
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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