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To: David R who wrote (7540)11/19/1997 10:34:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 10836
 
Here's what to do, it's simple. C was the lingua franca of software development and every other language supported calls to C libraries and DLLs. The DLL interface provided the runtime, binary interface. Now OOP comes along and C++ becomes the lingua franca of software development. Countless companies, however, fail to deliver an interactive GUI builder to make Windows programming easy in C++ and that is itself based in C++. [We don't need to here any glowing reports about products that claim to have achieved that because I will guarantee that any such system would be in use today if it stood up to field testing and did not create more problems than it solved. We aren't using such a product, therefore it does not exist in a marketable form.] In failing to deliver an elegant solution for that, VB and VB-like products take off. Primarily because a large fraction of enterprise software is form based. C++ continues to dominate for software tasks which are not primarily form-based.

The solution was: Use C++ to build components for a Windows runtime based on these C++ objects and expose interfaces using something which was there already: the C language interface provided by virtually every other language. There is only one reason we don't have this: the myopic hacker mentality of Microsoft combined with sales of Visual Basic.

The solution is: JAVA
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