But the relevant clause here is (ii). Reading further, it says:
2) The limitation of 1 call/per second/per IP address set forth in Section 1.A.2 above is not applicable to your use of Amazon S3. You may not, however, store "objects" (as described in the user documentation) that contain more than 5 Gigabytes of data, or own more than 100 "buckets" (as described in the user documentation) at any one time.
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As you note, VB is a bad language for string manipulation (it sorely needs an efficient string concatenation operator), which is one of the many reasons I avoid VB for my web work (the main one being that I prefer my servers to be running UNIX, as God intended).
Your other points are the kind of annoyances that you can find in any language. Python treats indentation as syntax. TCL has all those uplevel constructs. Perl is hard to read. Lots of languages don't have strong variable types. For what it's worth, my least favorite thing about VB is that arrays are zero-based by default but collections are one-based (it means I have to write a wrapper for all of my collection objects--gross).
Whatever. The perfect all-purpose language hasn't been written. Just because a language has some stupid things in it doesn't make it ipso facto a terrible language, as your post seems to imply (i.e., VB does the following stupid things, therefore VB is a stupid language).
Your assertion that VB is useless for anything larger than 50 lines is demonstratably false. Here at the shop, we have a VB COM library that's around 100,000 lines of code (it's an object wrapper for some high-performance numerical optimization routines that were written in C and C++). Yes, we could have done the wrapper in C++, but it would have been a waste of time (the runtime inefficiencies introduced by VB are negligible--we tested against a limited C++ implementation for comparison), and the amount of code necessary to write this library in C++ would have been much, much larger (at least 2x to 3x--Visual C++ is not a terse language in which to write a COM library). The library is rock-solid, by the way.
As for KBasic, I'm not sure the UNIX world needs another language for creating simple GUI apps (the effort would probably be better spent in improving the development environments for some existing languages). The UNIX world especially doesn't need a new language that requires yet another interpreter to be installed on the target machine.
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But the relevant clause here is (ii). Reading further, it says:
2) The limitation of 1 call/per second/per IP address set forth in Section 1.A.2 above is not applicable to your use of Amazon S3. You may not, however, store "objects" (as described in the user documentation) that contain more than 5 Gigabytes of data, or own more than 100 "buckets" (as described in the user documentation) at any one time.
Round out your geek's collection of O'Reilly books with perhaps the most influential scientific book of all time: Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica! Price varies widely with condition and provenance, but $175,00 - $200,000 wouldn't be surprising. If you're not feeling quite so flush, you might try a first edition of Darwin's Origin of Species instead, $40,000 at B and L Rootenberg Rare Books. They also carry a copy of the Principia, by the way. For more sellers, try a search at abebooks.com
Your other points are the kind of annoyances that you can find in any language. Python treats indentation as syntax. TCL has all those uplevel constructs. Perl is hard to read. Lots of languages don't have strong variable types. For what it's worth, my least favorite thing about VB is that arrays are zero-based by default but collections are one-based (it means I have to write a wrapper for all of my collection objects--gross).
Whatever. The perfect all-purpose language hasn't been written. Just because a language has some stupid things in it doesn't make it ipso facto a terrible language, as your post seems to imply (i.e., VB does the following stupid things, therefore VB is a stupid language).
Your assertion that VB is useless for anything larger than 50 lines is demonstratably false. Here at the shop, we have a VB COM library that's around 100,000 lines of code (it's an object wrapper for some high-performance numerical optimization routines that were written in C and C++). Yes, we could have done the wrapper in C++, but it would have been a waste of time (the runtime inefficiencies introduced by VB are negligible--we tested against a limited C++ implementation for comparison), and the amount of code necessary to write this library in C++ would have been much, much larger (at least 2x to 3x--Visual C++ is not a terse language in which to write a COM library). The library is rock-solid, by the way.
As for KBasic, I'm not sure the UNIX world needs another language for creating simple GUI apps (the effort would probably be better spent in improving the development environments for some existing languages). The UNIX world especially doesn't need a new language that requires yet another interpreter to be installed on the target machine.