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- From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
- Subject: Re: is VB a VL?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.070542.24175@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>
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- References: <1828@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> <C19wF0.BvA.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:05:42 GMT
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- In article <C19wF0.BvA.2@cs.cmu.edu> landay+@cs.cmu.edu (James A Landay) writes:
- >
- >Please, describe visual BASIC for us. Even if it turns out to be a
- >visual language (which it probably is by Brad's definition), I am
- >not sure this is the appropriate place to ask for technical help
- >concerning visual BASIC.
- >
- I agree. The places where one often finds stuff on VB are alt.lang.basic
- and in the ms-windows groups. I suspect VB is only "visual" in the sense
- that it makes it easy to have all the nice windows, buttons, scroll-bars
- etc. of Windows itself in your own Basic programs.
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