Is VB going to be important?

[Stephen Shaw sshaw@xxxxxxxx]

I would like to pursue a thoughtful discussion of VB and whether it will
prove to be an important and durable tool for PC desktop. Within the Win95
environment, it is the only tool which appears to me to integrate well
between applications and within applications. TTG's choice to include it
parallels other creative software companies like Media Cybernetics with the
Image Pro package. I am beginning to learn it, and see enormous power in its
approaches to automating applications and inter-application communication.
Can PERL or JAVA do that? If so, please provide me more information about
it and any experience you have had with them doing that.

Steve



At 07:47 AM 4/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
>  I have to agree -- it all sounds pretty great, except for the VB. I
>certainly wouldn't call that an "emerging standard". Perl and/or Javascript
>are the emerging standard -- VB will probably disappear not too far down the
>road, certainly it's being eclipsed even as we speak. Is anyone at all using
>VB for web programming? And that's essentially what you would want, I would
>think, to be integrated with your web authoring tool -- a suitable web
>programming language.
>  Other than that, tho, it does indeed sound neat. I'm especially
>interested in the database end of it too -- I've long thought that XY should
>serve well as a database tool, at least for personal needs or small
>companies. I wonder just how far-reaching that aspect will be? And what
>formats it will encompass?
>  Actually, what Ken described sounds an awful lot like a web browser, with
>a web editor attached. Too bad about the VB tho -- I hope it won't be too
>totally integrated -- I mean, maybe we could just ignore it or delete that
>part? Or not have to buy it in the first place?
>
>--
>Harmon Seaver
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>"Some mon just deal wit' information. An' some mon, him deal wit' the
>concept of truth. An' den some mon deal wit' magic. Information flow aroun'
>ya, an' truth flow right at ya. But magic, it flow t'rough ya."
>     -- Nernelly, A Jamaican "Bush Doctor," 1982
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