Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:53:17 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1045162370.9785ae@mired.org> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net>, chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages Message-ID: <xzp3cmy7dn6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <15941.20993.593940.933429@guru.mired.org> (Mike Meyer's message of "Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:52:49 -0600") References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org> <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com> <15941.20993.593940.933429@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1045162370.9785ae@mired.org> writes: > VB just edges out perl, java and C++, which seem to be about even with > each other. VB is also balkanized a bit, as each application > apparently has it's own variant. Not just each application, but each version of each application, and that includes nationalization (they translate VB along with the rest of the application). There's also a dotnet version which I've heard is significantly different from previous versions (the dotnet platform is allegedly so idiosyncratic they couldn't port VB to it without a lot of modifications) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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