Netware is a fine OS, even if you don't hear that much about it any more.
The problem is that Netware never was that good an Application Server (Netware Loadable Modules...), although it will do just fine and then some as a file- and printserver. So users installed other OSes alongside and more and more instead of Netware.
When they fixed that in Netware 5, allowing Java apps to run and making development much easier, it was too little, too late...
People don't read web pages because there is no logical order:
there is no First Page of the Web, maybe you have a first page on the web, but there is no Universal First Page of the Web.
in general there is no one Next Page: pages contain various links to other pages, taking the user just about anywhere he wants to go.
The web is like a massive library (remember those?) where on every page of every book there is a reference inviting you to read on on a diffent page in a different chapter of a different book. It's unlikely you would read Chapter 2 after Chapter 1, even if actual books were printed this way. (Think of encyclopedia and newspapers: do you read them cover to cover?)
Inside web pages people are scanning the page when they first see it, because there is no fixed lay-out (as opposed to books). They probably continue to scan for the most interesting parts of the page when they have scanned for the structure of the page. In general, Web pages by their very design ask to be scanned.
Also, there might be the psychological effect of having an unbound (litteraly) amount of information: there's no end to reading it, so people just don't even try. You don't even read every page on/. on a rainy afternoon.;o)
I'm sure Mr. Nielsen will correct this and expand on it...
What fully featured implementations of realtime, OO, etc?? The Pascal language does not define any of this. What product are you refering to?
And as for Visual Basic: Are you talking language or IDE? I think the latter. What about the language? Would people still be able to create the same apps learning how to code ("the old fashioned way") instead of learning to use the IDE?
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Assuming it's true...
What are the applcations they are porting?
Why are they porting these apps to Linux?
Kind of strange to see this news after Microsoft's .Net idea as announced by BillG.
The problem is that Netware never was that good an Application Server (Netware Loadable Modules...), although it will do just fine and then some as a file- and printserver. So users installed other OSes alongside and more and more instead of Netware.
When they fixed that in Netware 5, allowing Java apps to run and making development much easier, it was too little, too late...
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I'm sure Mr. Nielsen will correct this and expand on it...
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What fully featured implementations of realtime, OO, etc?? The Pascal language does not define any of this. What product are you refering to?
And as for Visual Basic: Are you talking language or IDE? I think the latter. What about the language? Would people still be able to create the same apps learning how to code ("the old fashioned way") instead of learning to use the IDE?