> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Kathy
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 3:06 PM
> So VB is a program -- if you write VB code, you are not writing
> "basic" but are writing to "call" BASIC?
You don't write VB code, you write Basic code using VB. I don't
know where you got the verb "call," but the way you used it
doesn't make sense.
> > ... 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).
> >
> ... The last sentence has thrown me -- if VB just
> processes Basic -- why would writing "plain basic" another way
> suggest "theft"?
I didn't say that. I said that if someone created an exact clone
of the Microsoft Visual Basic Programming System (by reverse-
engineering it), there would naturally be suspicions that they
had stolen the code (which I assume is C or C++) from Microsoft.
This would also be true if someone created an exact clone of
Powerpoint or MS Money.
Someone once asked Lincoln "If you called a cow's tail a leg, how
many legs would the cow have?" He replied "Four. Calling a tail
a leg doesn't make it one." Likewise calling VB a language doesn't
make it one.
Bob Munck
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