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Re: Microsoft's Java-Killer! (VBScript)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Dietrich)
Mon Feb 5 22:24:06 1996
From: Bill Dietrich <bdietrich@voysys.com>
To: "'java-interest@java.sun.com'" <java-interest@java.sun.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 17:52:00 PST
Actually, if VBScript is delivered and works, I think
it may be a serious threat to Java.
I've been lurking on the Java list for a while, and
as a professional programmer I can tell you I'm not
very excited about yet another complex object-oriented
language (and library).
I want something that lets me get a job done (making
money for my company) without having to make a career
of learning some really complex tool. I don't like
Microsoft Foundation Classes for the same reason.
I could learn Java or MFC (and I have learned C++ and
Smalltalk), but there are easier ways to get my job done.
I haven't seen anything about JavaScript yet; maybe that
will be a tool I'll be happier with.
As for your comment about "another non-standard subset of
Visual Basic, just like Visual Basic for Applications, and
Access-Basic", I think Microsoft will be moving them closer
together over time. I'd very much like a situation where
I can make Windows GUI applications, OCX's, web applets
and Office macroes in more or less the same language.
I'll use C for the guts (for performance, low-level stuff, file I/O,
detailed control, etc), and VB for the rest.
Maybe I'm coming across as a Microsoft apologist, but I'm not.
I just want to get a job done, in a simple and straightforward way.
Thanks,
Bill Dietrich
bdietrich@voysys.com
Original message:
From: Mike Paluka <mikep@exmachina.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:55:41 -0500
Subject: Microsoft's Java-Killer!
Go to www.microsoft.com and search for "java" and you'll
find some interesting conference transcripts where the
Microsoftians discuss their Java-killer:
"VBScript"
I kid you not!
Wow...just what I need, another non-standard subset of
Visual Basic, just like Visual Basic for Applications, and
Access-Basic.
more omitted .......
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