Re: For Your Amusement

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:58:05 -0800, "Bob Butler"
<tiredofit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

>MS never understood what they had in VB; their users did. Too bad they only
>listened to the fringe element that was embarassed by using "basic" instead
>of looking at the language for what it was.

I think that Bill Gates and some of the old guard at MS understood
very well

In the early 1990's there was a scrap in MS, and BG sorted things out
by stating that BASIC was going to be the language for automation

The trouble is that the 'new bunch' at MS have forgotton where their
company came from
.

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