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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/28
Date: 1999-02-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bagl0$l25$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b6c4q$7pa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

In article <7b6c4q$7pa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> 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.

Why not? Most certainly a very wide range of programming
tasks can be accomplished in VB? Especially if you take
into account the wealth of components available.

I see no reason why VB is any less a general purpose
programming language that C++ or Ada ...

What is your reasoning here?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-02-28  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   ` 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                 ` 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                       ` David Botton
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                               ` David Botton
1999-03-01  0:00                               ` dennison
1999-03-01  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01  0:00                       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01  0:00                       ` fraser
1999-02-26  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26  0:00                   ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12  0:00               ` Tony Gair
1999-02-26  0:00           ` dennison
1999-02-26  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-26  0:00               ` dennison
1999-02-28  0:00             ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-24  0:00   ` DPH
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