MartyConnelly
martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Thu Mar 17 01:57:02 CST 2005
Even Fortran had runtime polymorphism and inheritance, 10 years ago, Fortran 95 is not fully oops but I prefer a language designed to translate formulas :-) rather than one cobbled together to run telephone switching equipment and then hacked into a general-purpose language over the years... http://www.fortran.com/metcalf.htm? But what do you think I run on my Cray XD-1 to handle 64 bit pointers? and parallel programming ;) Fortran is a standard compiler install on these beasts. Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote: >FYI: > >Microsft May Be Hitting a Complaince Wall Here >Undoubtedly the reason VB.NET is so unlike VB6 is that a no-going-back >incompatibility is essential to the .NET strategy, for it is a strategy >having no compelling reason to exist except to compel a forced march to >rentalware. >http://news.com.com/5208-1007-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=5447&messageID=33487&start=-191 > >Microsoft walks VB tight rope >Facing protests from legions of Visual Basic developers, Microsoft is not >backing down. But it is taking steps to keep them on friendly terms. >http://news.com.com/2100-1007-5620821.html?tag=yt > >"In short, by using VB6, you conciously subscribed to the Microsoft >business plan that >obsolteted it. Microsoft never led you to believe they wouldn't change >things around on >you or force you to port your code. Historically, this has happened many >times >before and there's financial incentives to do it. The developer is wrong to >whine, and >Microsoft's right to ignore them. " > >Shamil >-- >Web: http://smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s > ><<< tail skipped >>> > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada