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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!viking.cris.com!Fesinc From: Fesinc@cris.com (Daniel Haskell) Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no M$ AppleScript or Rexx imitations? Followup-To: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 31 May 1996 08:54:18 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4omc3q$fqh@tribune.concentric.net> References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <petrichDs5Fv9.5Cr@netcom.com> <4ohcuv$772@ari.ari.net> <4oi5m1$5un@orion.cybercom.net> <petrichDs78Mx.6G0@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: viking.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22777 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:108272 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:143836 comp.os.os2.advocacy:206364 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:110338 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50594 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20403 Loren Petrich (petrich@netcom.com) wrote: : In article <4oi5m1$5un@orion.cybercom.net>, : Jerry Shekhel <jerry@cybercom.net> wrote: : >I guess Cory's never seen VB in conjunction with OLE Automation. "This : >can't be scripting, there's no text screen, no Emacs, no pipes??? I'm : >soooo confused!!! Time to think of a clever way to bash Microsoft!!!" : What's Visual Basic? And what exactly is OLE Automation? VB is : not included in any variety of Windoze, as far as I know. And is VB : *anything* like the old computer language "BASIC"? The one that still : gets included with DOS? [snip] Visual Basic is a typical MS product - it looks good until you try to use it for something real. I deleted it off my system after about the 100th crash. It was incredible, sometimes all it took was to move the mouse! Picture this: Ten lines of code, which haven't been executed yet, I move the mouse and VB aborts... (and NO, I have not had this problem with other Windows applications. It is *not* a configuration problem. It is just shitty software). I also hated the moronic editor that was incorporated into the VB environment. Lastly, it is my firm opinion that whoever wrote SHARE.EXE should be taken out and shot.