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Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"

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From: Andrew J. Williams
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 08:17
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hraiser@cloud9.net wrote:

>Chung Hong (chungh@Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
>: So what?  VB will still be a messed up mutated language with severe limits
>: and incredibly frustrating to use, especially when compared with the other
>: development tools out there like Delphi.  If you've used VB and Delphi both,
>: you'd realize that VB has much deeper problems than what including a new
>: VB-compiler will be able to resolve. 

>  No compiler can compensate for a weak, cumbersome, limited language like
>(Viusal) Basic.  Delphi has an excellent environment, but nothing on heaven
>or Earth can make me go back to coding Pascal.  Smart money is on Latte,
>Borland's upcoming Java based programming environment, based on the Delphi
>front end.


Isn't Java an interpreted language?
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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 08:17:03 GMT
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