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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 19:36:48 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
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- In article <823335327.28831@williaj.demon.co.uk>, andrew@williaj.demon.co.uk
- says...
- >
- >hraiser@cloud9.net wrote:
- >
- >>Chung Hong (chungh@Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
- >>: So what? VB will still be a messed up mutated language with severe limits
- >>: and incredibly frustrating to use, especially when compared with the other
- >>: development tools out there like Delphi. If you've used VB and Delphi
- both,
- >>: you'd realize that VB has much deeper problems than what including a new
- >>: VB-compiler will be able to resolve.
- >
- >> No compiler can compensate for a weak, cumbersome, limited language like
- >>(Viusal) Basic. Delphi has an excellent environment, but nothing on heaven
- >>or Earth can make me go back to coding Pascal. Smart money is on Latte,
- >>Borland's upcoming Java based programming environment, based on the Delphi
- >>front end.
- >
- >
- >Isn't Java an interpreted language?
-
- No, it's just implemented that way. There is nothing in the Java language
- definition that prevents compiling Java, and, in fact, a just-in-time compiler
- for Java can yield 2x-15x speed improvements.
- -- Pete
-
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