Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 15:49:09 -0600 (CST) From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net> To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: [NOISE] Re: FW: websurfer 4.6
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Rich Graves wrote:
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Microsoft's strategy is to support VB. [snip] -rich
Its interesting to note that all the people that were raving mad about Java seem to be quiet now that MS is proposing to use VB. At least Java was designed from the ground up with security in mind. But VB? Actual binary
Well, at least it's easy and fun to program in (if you can call drag-'n-drop "coding"). Of course, until 4.0, their setup utility didn't check what version of DLL you were installing, so it's easy to get your DLLs out of sync on your system and blow your applications all to hell, and 4.0 throws all thos OLE crap in, even if you don't need/want/use OLE in your code and makes a 300K application into a 3M one, and they won't tell you what really goes on underneath the hood (I guess they're paranoid about getting ripped off), and never mind that it's almost trivial to write a VB decompiler (the .EXE is just a big jump table into offsets into VBRUN300.DLL), etc., etc., etc... And all this from a software company that took over 10 years to make their "operating system" do preemptive *anything*. But I guess I shouldn't complain. After all, VB has made me a pretty decent living for the past year or so...