Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
> There is an article on Yahoo about the changes in MS Visual Basic's next
> incarnation as Visual Basic.Net, and how those changes are upsetting
> long-time developers:
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010615/tc/visual_basic_net_is_it_too_complex
> __1.html
>
> Seems like a good time for them to hear about MetaCard, maybe.
Once we have multi-column lists and database binding, they might listen;
database connectivity seems to be one of the main uses of VB.
Also, so much of VB work is as a shell to run ActiveX components (there are
several thousand of them available), so the relatively closed world of MC
might be a hard sell to a crowd used to plug-n-play extensibility (I have to
admit it's kinda cool to drop the IE component onto a form and have your own
embedded browser, however limited and single-platform it might be).
Just the same, it can't hurt to prowl such groups and drop in the
occassional relevant comment....
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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