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From: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
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?
Date: 1 Jun 1996 22:14:12 -0700
Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting - http://www.memra.com
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In article <4on6de$9rj@orion.cybercom.net>,
Jerry Shekhel <jerry@cybercom.net> wrote:

>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.

Nope. UNIX is the most widely used development environment. And as for
programming languages, COBOL is still the most widely used programming
language and now has object oriented capabilities that allow any existing
COBOL program to be treated as an object.

>Like it or not, a *lot* of people use it for "something real".

Like it or not, COBOL and UNIX are still *VERY* widely used.


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Michael Dillon                                   ISP & Internet Consulting
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