"John S. Gage" wrote:
> I think it is worthwhile to for this group to ask itself, "What is Visual
> Basic?"
> .
> <comments I sort of agree with removed>
> Yes, I'm fanning the flames of the language war. They must be fanned and a
> single language must win or we would be infinitely better off creating open
> source HL7 interface engines and working from that direction. I'm writing
> this on March 20, 2001. Let's re-read it on March 20, 2002 and see what
> has changed.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the language war is not where the
challenge is at. The right language is the one chosen by the team at the time.
If the resources (i.e. people) for a given OS project choose C++, then good for
them - it is no doubt the choice which will result in the best product from
that team. Another team will choose Java, and others VB, and so on. There will
always be diversity.
If they want to make their products usable beyond their own language community,
they don't need to change language, they need to engineer interoperability, by
providing interfaces to other components in the environment. I.e., they need to
contemplate COM, .net, CORBA, SOAP/XML, etc etc.
- thomas beale
