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To: Kashish King who wrote (1582)	11/11/1998 8:20:00 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

HE'S BACK 1. Form-based business applications: Visual Basic 3. Shrink-wrapped tool, applications and components: Visual C++ That you would choose these tools over BCB says a lot.

To: Kashish King who wrote (1582)	11/11/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: Mark Bracey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Recommended Tools: 1. Form-based business applications: Visual Basic 2. Distributed, web-based applications: Visual Cafe (Symantec) 3. Shrink-wrapped tool, applications and components: Visual C++ Let me guess... You also prefer nroff or troff and vi to something like Microsoft Word.

To: Kashish King who wrote (1582)	11/11/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: Graham Wideman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

Rod: <...sound of peanuts being munched...> Nice to see you back... your postings are a good read, with at least some percentage of stuff that you nail in a very engaging manner. (Not to say there aren't differences of opinion etc...) Anyhow, on the subject of Stroustrup and Pascal -- he's always full of valuable insights. Do you happen to know where you are quoting him from in "Pascal's type system worse than useless"? It's widely known that he dislikes Pascal, but I'd be curious to see where he might have elaborated on that in more detail. Graham

To: Kashish King who wrote (1582)	11/11/1998 4:23:00 PM
From: TChai	Respond to of 5102

Welcome back Rod. Recommended Tools: 1. Form-based business applications: Visual Basic 2. Distributed, web-based applications: Visual Cafe (Symantec) 3. Shrink-wrapped tool, applications and components: Visual C++ Unfortunately, Microsoft has had little success in patching and reworking its extremely archaic and brittle technology into a modern, distributed, component-based architecture capable of competing. NOTE: Don't use Inprise tools for anything, they're not fit to be given to alpha testers let alone developers with real products to build. for the new stars of information technology: intelligent, flexible, extensible, elegant and reusable software components and services based on CORBA and Java. Inprise will build on that base and compete above it So within six months, M$ tools have pulled ahead while INPR's is down the toilet. What a reversal of fortune? Could you please enlighten us how this happen?