From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,101730fbd6919745 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-16 13:06:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada & .Net (Rotor) Date: 16 Apr 2002 13:06:26 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204161206.68d0abba@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1018987586 562 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 20:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Apr 2002 20:06:26 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22615 Date: 2002-04-16T20:06:26+00:00 List-Id: "Juergen Pfeifer" wrote in message news:... > Well, lets look a bit at history: Windows became really successfull when > Visual Basic arrived and made the platform much more easier to program. That Revisionist history perhaps. Microsoft originally supported VB for both DOS and Windows. When I say "Windows", I mean the original pre-95 Windows, which never really was very popular at all. (VB was released in 1991) Many businesses used Windows as a platform for MS's Office apps (which did not yet own the market like they do today), and some home users had it, but most people stuck with DOS. There are lots of good candidates for "the thing that made Windows successfull" which could be reasonably argued. VB is not really one of them. A good VB history page is available at http://www.johnsmiley.com/visualbasic/vbhistory.htm -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html