From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 16 11:46:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22168 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22157 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id LAA11308; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:46:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from pcconsole(192.168.100.254) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma011306; Mon, 16 Jun 97 11:46:56 -0700 Message-ID: <33A589B2.273E@PartsNow.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:45:06 -0700 From: Don Wilde Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01E -NOV-NOV (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Lambrou CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simplicity vs. POWER References: <3.0.1.32.19970616140719.00541430@mail58.internetmci.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>Not true, Visual Bacic makes programming Windows GUI a piece of cake. >>And It pays well too! Unless you want to use Visual C++. Then it is >>painful. Sorry, PAINFUL.My exp. w/ Visual Basic had me in tears because it wanted to lose all my forms into never-neverland all the time. It seems easier, but it is scary because of the bombs. Haven't tried VC++, but I did have very good results with Visual Smalltalk from Digitalk (now ParcPlace/Digitalk). Unfortuately, they have decided to leave the shrinkwrap market and charge many $thousands for their stuff. >>Anyway, I'll take POWER any time over simplicity. I can't wait until I >>have feeBSD up and running so that I can get rid of STUPID Win NT, >>install my Apache Web server and miniSQL and start doing real >>programming. But, it >>ain't gonna be easy.Bear with it. You won't be lookin g back in about 2 weeks. BTW, use unix2dos to strip those ^M's from your file before reading it in losedoze. Second tip, do your CGI's in Boutell's CGI-C or Ousterhout's Tcl rather than Perl. IMHO, THAT is fore masochists!!!! -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo