Application Implementation Holy Wars

3 posts ยท Aug 15 1997 to Aug 15 1997

From: Tim Jones <Tim.Jones@S...>

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:57:13 -0400

Subject: Application Implementation Holy Wars

On Friday, August 15, 1997 1:08 PM, Joachim Heck - SunSoft
> [SMTP:jheck@East.Sun.COM] wrote:

All true but its used nearly everywhere and integrates well with all the MS
products which are nearly everywhere. With the great apple survival sellout MS
Office and VB will be appearing there soon.

That just leaves unix as the only platform to worry about and most of us

don't have unix machines at home its mostly PC's and Mac's. Given the requests
for ftmap for win32 I'd implement it in VB and be dammed. The only problem
with VB is the ludicrously large runtime DLL you have to release with it.

Java maybe, both it and VB look good on a CV these days.

From: Sprayform <sprayform.dev@n...>

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:01:34 -0400

Subject: Re: Application Implementation Holy Wars

> At 13:57 15/08/97 +0100, Tim wrote:

> That just leaves unix as the only platform to worry about and most of

Oh... so the Silicon Graphics O2 on my desk is just in my imagination!
:-0
Jon(T.C.)
Sprayforming Developments Ltd. [production tools]
                                           made in
				      [prototype  times]
'The future is now'

From: M Hodgson <mkh100@y...>

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:29:01 -0400

Subject: Re: Application Implementation Holy Wars

> Oh... so the Silicon Graphics O2 on my desk is just in my imagination

Well the Power Challange I wish I had is...