Re: Computer System Survey (Highly OFF TOPIC by now)

On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

> Then I looked at it and found out that it was just BASIC.
> That may have been the first time I realized how horrible Microsoft
> truly is.  They could at least have done Visual Pascal or Visual
> Scheme or SOMETHING BUT PLEASE GOD NOT BASIC!

C'mon. What's so horrible about Basic? This isn't the interpreted
goto-line_number mess Basic was in the eighties.

Can you name some useful functionality ANSI Pascal has that VB doesn't?

Java holds promise, but I've yet to see anything really useful done with
it. I fear security considerations will cripple Java as a truly useful
application platform -- AFAIK Java interpreters are not standard part of
any mass market OS (read: Windows, sadly). The one in your browser
doesn't
count, it can (should) never provide full functionality due to security
concerns. 

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