VisualBasic / VAX SQL/Server ??

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3 total messages Started by etxjesm Sun, 12 Apr 1992 15:22

#321

Author: etxjesm
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 15:22

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Hi.
I'am tring to get a Visual-Basic program running against VAX/VMS
SQL/Services. I whonder if there is somone out there who's
done that. Any tips whould be fine.


                   Jan-Erik S|derholm
                   Ericsson Telecom AB
                   Norrk|pings fabriken
                   Box 72
                   601 02 Norrk|ping
                   Sweden

Re: VisualBasic / VAX SQL/Server ??

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Author: Brent Langdon
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:38

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>I'am tyring to get a Visual-Basic program runnin against VAX/VMS

I know this has nothing to do with windows programming, but has anyone
else found it funny that thier are so many beefed up BASIC compilers
out there.  Nothing personal, but I thought that BASIC written to be
an instructional language and not for full fledged programming.


                                    Just my opinion,
                                    Brent Langdon
                                    Central Michigan University

Re: VisualBasic / VAX SQL/Server ??

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Author: Ben Ross
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 07:17

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In article <92105.17384432JJCB3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Brent Langdon <32JJCB3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
>I know this has nothing to do with windows programming, but has anyone
>else found it funny that thier are so many beefed up BASIC compilers
>out there.  Nothing personal, but I thought that BASIC written to be
>an instructional language and not for full fledged programming.

It seems that Microsoft has a vision for its corner of the world, a vision
in which there are only two languages used: C and BASIC.  C is for any
serious project, and BASIC is for the uneducated masses.  (Note that
Microsoft's corner of the world consists of Windows).  Not a bad vision,
if you ask me: BASIC seems to be understandable to most beginning computer-
ites, and C is not a half bad language (no flames please: I develop almost
exclusively in C/C++).  Anyway, because of that Microsoft has been really
pushing BASIC.  The other people (and I have only seen two actual BASIC
compilers for DOS, but I have not looked all that carefully) saw a need 
(or thought they did) and filled it.  For a new programmer who is sick of
GWBASIC, a compiled BASIC is both cheap and easy.  Let us take a moment to
pity the poor souls..... :-)

Ben Ross
(beross@u.washington.edu)

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