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Re: Random Quotes

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From: Angus Creech
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:46
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 18:50:02 GMT, Stephen Patterson (spam@freeuk.com) scribbled: 

> Have you tried VB?

I write ActiveX data components in VB and couple them with VBScript 
for a living. And I've programmed simulations in Fortran on a Cray -

I still say Fortran is worse!
(but not by much)

I suppose the worst thing about VB is it's very much "black box"
programming; it hides an awful lot of the under-the-bonnet goings on.

Angus
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From: creech@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Angus Creech)
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Subject: Re: Random Quotes
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