Bob Munck writes:
>
> > Yes. The point was that proprietary languages are alive and well,
> > and some, like VB, are quite popular.
>
> No, the point is that Visual Basic is not a language; it's a
> program that processes a language. VB is a proprietary software
> package, in that Microsoft owns it and has the sole and exclusive
> right to manufacture and sell it.
>
> Basic, the language, has existed since Bill Gates was in high
> school. It is not proprietary, nor are most if not all other
> programming languages. Anyone can write a software package
> that processes it; in fact, anyone can write a software package
> that does exactly the same things that Visual Basic does (though
> they'd better use a "clean room" approach to avoid suspicion of
> theft).
>
> Are we clear?
We're clear, we simply disagree.
You're making a distinction between the VB compiler and the language it
implements; this is fair enough. But you seem to imply that VB implements a
standard version of BASIC, which it clearly does not. In fact, so far as
I am aware, MS is the sole source for compilers for this particular
language. In my book, that makes VB a proprietary language.
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