What does it matter if it breaks BASIC compilers?
It's not supposed to be basic, it's supposed to BASIC look-alike.
The platform spesific is being removed, because it will compiled to.NET.
There is a very good reason to use VB in RAD, it's *much* safer than C/C++, easier to learn, and make GUI creation much easier than C.
A lot of applications doesn't need to be efficent, or fast, or beautiful, as long as they manage to be reasonably good in all of this areas, for those cases, VB is fine.
Especially if you need something in a hurry.
You write it once, and it's generated hundred of thousands of times.
I think that dynamic pages are good in this regard, because most people then do the HTML by hand, instead of WYSIWYG tools.
Hell, I know some job markets where it's profitable to quit every six months, live off unemplotment checks, and then come back six months afterward.
Beside, 2 months is indeed nothing, especially for someone whose only knowledge is java, sql & html.
I'm only impressed by DBA amount of SQL knowledge, and even then, if it comes with all the rest. HTML can hardly impress me anymore (should've tried that 5 years ago).
Java is a broad subject. Hell, I've seen people who thought being half way fluent in Java*script* is suffice to say that they are Java programmers.
Since they, like many others, use BSD code, I would doubt that they are against OS.
I can easily see why they don't like GPL.
Hell, I can see why they think GPL is "anti-american", wasn't it how they put it?
Java, anyone?
That was what the big advantage of Java was. I wonder what would happen to it now.
Hopefully good stuff, the competition would do them good.
> Also, I find that when I'm working in a dos/win environment that I spent about as much time on the prompt as I can, and all that ~1 crap gets annoying if I go over the 8 chars.
Then turn it off?
You also get the full name (assuming you work from within widnows, and not native dos) on the side.
Three characters is not enough, there are plenty of programs that use the same extention.
What is annoying is that windows can implement something very much like Mac's way of doing it, very easily.
It already does something like this on Office documents, and that is on 9x.
On NT, it's simple matter of creating a resource fork, and since NTFS support unlimited number of streams, it's a trivial matter to check on who owns this file.
(Basically, if the resource is empty, you go by file extention or ask the user, afterward, you already knows what the user wants this file to be open with. So you store it in the ADS)
About undocumented features.
There is a large part of Windows GUI that is undocumented.
The one that I've in mind is the API the control choosing icons.
Exactly because of this, it's advised not to keep your DB connection strings in plain-text, I know that it's a common habit to put a lot of your bussiness logic in a COM object and just call that, make it much harder to get your passwords.
Slashdot Mirror
What does it matter if it breaks BASIC compilers? .NET.
It's not supposed to be basic, it's supposed to BASIC look-alike.
The platform spesific is being removed, because it will compiled to
There is a very good reason to use VB in RAD, it's *much* safer than C/C++, easier to learn, and make GUI creation much easier than C.
A lot of applications doesn't need to be efficent, or fast, or beautiful, as long as they manage to be reasonably good in all of this areas, for those cases, VB is fine.
Especially if you need something in a hurry.
You write it once, and it's generated hundred of thousands of times.
I think that dynamic pages are good in this regard, because most people then do the HTML by hand, instead of WYSIWYG tools.
It's on IIS, which mean NT
And if you'll recall, all the site's downtime was due to Solaris, not NT
Hell, I know some job markets where it's profitable to quit every six months, live off unemplotment checks, and then come back six months afterward.
Beside, 2 months is indeed nothing, especially for someone whose only knowledge is java, sql & html.
I'm only impressed by DBA amount of SQL knowledge, and even then, if it comes with all the rest. HTML can hardly impress me anymore (should've tried that 5 years ago).
Java is a broad subject. Hell, I've seen people who thought being half way fluent in Java*script* is suffice to say that they are Java programmers.
What about loglan? Esperanto? Other artifical languages?
Which is why you get things like the mars lander which couldn't decide between feet and meters?
When Java was out, MS was *not* a small fish.
WinME is NOT reliable.
Now, if you want to talk about NT line, I might agree.
.NET is *not* bytecode.
Since they, like many others, use BSD code, I would doubt that they are against OS.
I can easily see why they don't like GPL.
Hell, I can see why they think GPL is "anti-american", wasn't it how they put it?
How can they prevent you from this? .NET is ECMA licensed, meaning that it's like BSD code, you can do whatever you want with ti.
The
Java, anyone?
That was what the big advantage of Java was. I wonder what would happen to it now.
Hopefully good stuff, the competition would do them good.
.NET is going to be an open standard.
You want to hear about vedor lock in? What about *cough* Java *cough* ?
As a note, .NET turns VB into a real programming language.
> Also, I find that when I'm working in a dos/win environment that I spent about as much time on the prompt as I can, and all that ~1 crap gets annoying if I go over the 8 chars.
Then turn it off?
You also get the full name (assuming you work from within widnows, and not native dos) on the side.
Three characters is not enough, there are plenty of programs that use the same extention.
What is annoying is that windows can implement something very much like Mac's way of doing it, very easily.
It already does something like this on Office documents, and that is on 9x.
On NT, it's simple matter of creating a resource fork, and since NTFS support unlimited number of streams, it's a trivial matter to check on who owns this file.
(Basically, if the resource is empty, you go by file extention or ask the user, afterward, you already knows what the user wants this file to be open with. So you store it in the ADS)
AFAIK, Macs still has 32 character file limit.
NT isn't a single architecture OS.
There has been an Alpha port up until 2K B3.
About undocumented features.
There is a large part of Windows GUI that is undocumented.
The one that I've in mind is the API the control choosing icons.
I don't think it's 150M, I think it's 30M.
That was IBM, in the 50s.
I don't see anything strange in MS statement.
Win2K code is way more than 1M lines.
30 Millions IIRC.
The current whislter that is out doesn't include the activation code, only the GUI for it.
Exactly because of this, it's advised not to keep your DB connection strings in plain-text, I know that it's a common habit to put a lot of your bussiness logic in a COM object and just call that, make it much harder to get your passwords.
MS would *love* you to do this, you would be sued about five seconds before you release your browser.