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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.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!newshost.comco.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!voyager.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: 1 Jun 1996 21:00:56 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4oqb28$hgi@tribune.concentric.net> References: <4on6de$9rj@orion.cybercom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: voyager.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22826 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:108467 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:144282 comp.os.os2.advocacy:206622 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:110695 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50706 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20475 Jerry Shekhel (jerry@cybercom.net) wrote: : Daniel Haskell (Fesinc@cris.com) wrote: : : 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). : : : No. VB has its share of problems, but what you're describing is *definitely* : a configuration problem. VB is the most widely used development environment : today, used mostly for internal development, prototyping, and front ends. : Like it or not, a *lot* of people use it for "something real". Interesting how a configuration problem can affect only one program. Word crashes occasionally on my system, but the crashes seem unrelated to the mouse. Actually, to clarify, there were only a few crashes that occured durring mouse movement. It's possible that VB had already trashed it's memory and that the mouse movement just put it over the edge. I don't care whether or not others use VB (unless it is to write software that I will be forced to use). You can bet, however, that I'm not going to touch it again. VB is a classic example of Microsoft releasing a product *long* before it is ready.