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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (31595)5/6/2000 11:36:00 AM
From: paul  Respond to of 64865
 
Other analysts agreed that Microsoft has a lot to learn from Java.

"Visual Basic...and Active X are nowhere near the security posture of Java," Gartner's Pescatore said. "Java was designed with security in mind. Visual Basic was designed to allow novice users to build anything. C++ is not much better. (In) all programming languages until Java came along, most of the common ones were pretty insecure from a security perspective."

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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (31595)5/6/2000 11:44:00 AM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 64865
 
I am in awe that one Filipino kid can do $1,000,000,000 (one billion) damage in 24 hours (and on a school night!). --- Talk about empowering the individual. Talk about personal productivity. Talk about "where do you want to go today?". And this is just with M$'s scripting language! --- And *I'm promoting the release of the Win32 source code? <g> -JCJ