🚀 go-pugleaf

John Tessin (jtessin@netcom.com) wrote:
: Mik Clarke (raz89@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
: : Java will be dead after 16 years (at least it had better be). Most

: It may be sooner than that.  I just saw a reference to something that I 
: interpret as Visual Basic for the net.  IOW - the web clients can use it 
: like java scripts.  If my ass-umption, when I scanned it, is right, java 
: may pass into oblivion real soon.  There are far more people out there, who 
: fancy themselves programmers, that know Basic.  BTW - I believe MS is at 
: the bottom of this.

Unfortunately, VB will not be ported to the *ix platforms. That includes
SGI's IRIX, Sun's SunOS and Solaris, IBM's AIX, DEC's OSF/2, Free Software
Foundation's Linux, and other svr4 or 4.4bsd ports to other architectures.
However, Java has already been ported to most, if not all, of these 
platforms already.

: Note: I may be full of it as I saw the reference for it last night late.  
: IOW - I was tired.  There was a tie, as I recall, to the MS browser, (I 
: forgot it's name).

MS Browser is the Explorer 2.0... I think =] I don't do Micro$oft (;

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Nexx

Each day of a person's life is a battle;
The entire life being the war.
A war, not against anybody else;
But one fought against oneself.
One need never to fight alone;
For one shalt always have companions of the heart.

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