Reg-
That is irrelevant.
To you, maybe. Not to me, as I write applications using these languages.
They are not applications, they are languages, and you can not consider the support products a "plethora" if you are comparing them relative to the tools and products available to the Wintel platform.
I sure as hell can. The number of plug-ins, widget sets, gui builders, code generators, object modules, etc. available for the languages I mentioned is mind-boggling. Not only that, the vast majority of them are free. Awhile back you said something to the effect of 'When will Sun have 10k apps?'. Sun's already got 10k apps. Look at the FSF, Gnu, HURD, Linux, FreeBSD, and the list goes on. The number of applications that run under Unix is comparable to the number of applications that run under Wintel. Just because you don't use them doesn't mean they don't exist.
NSCP can not say the same about anything, unitl they come out with Visual Javascript 1.0, then it will be a 1.0 product, quite immature.
Boy, you really buy this marketing carp, don't you? Do you mean that if I came out with WidgetMaster v5.3 it would automagically be stable and mature? I don't know, 'cause apparently MSFT can't even get version 95 right.
I said :
... unless I've been misinformed, they are code generators and gui builders, which...
You said :
You have been misinformed. Excel 8.0 comes ready to run out of the box, and is very easily extended by manually writing code or using its internal code generator
Didn't you just make my point?
I have a whole website full of the stuff.
I'll have to take your word for that, as I can't see any of it using my computer. Very effective, though, I'll wager.
If you don't want to do any of that, simply pick a ready made template and hit "save as" on the menu bar to ftp it in native format or html to any web site or FTP site, it is internet aware, ...
You don't think SpecTcl and other stuff like it do these things? BTW - it's free too.
Given an hour, I bet I can make a much more functional (not to mention prettier) intranet app out of Excel 8.0 than you can out of your raw code any time.
Is the platform Excel 8.0? If so, you win, and I won't play, because I have no idea how to use Excel 8.0, and don't even have a PC. If the platform is the web, you're on (depending of course on the application.).
-justinb |
