Labor Day Ramblings

[Chad McWilliams]

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> Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Walter Vaughan been jivin' 'bout like:
> > The reason I think this will not end up being a "Microsoft Bob" is 
> > that you will have your pick of any of the dot.net 
> languages to write 
> > in
> > (Cobol/VB.net/C#/...) and you interact at a very high 
> level, so that when
> 
> And they'll let you use a -real- language...when?  :)  VB is 
> proprietary. M$ is the only one keeping C# alive, really.  
> Cobol is something people have been migrating (or trying to) 
> off of for quite some years.
> 
> The second reason Access is so laughable, after its horridly 
> underscalable JET (hah!) engine, is its inability to do 
> anything even remotely non-simplistic without knowing VB.
> 
> Of course, .net and VB programmers are a dime a dozen these 
> days--and worth about as much, to boot.
> 
> mark->
> -- 

Although, at least with ActiveState's help, you can write .net components in
Perl.  I haven't actually used it yet, I just know it's there.  I've been
fairly happy with their other Perl products though (Komodo, PDK).

-Chad McWilliams