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Message no. 1
From: Adam J <adamj@*********.HTML.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] programming languages' evolution
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:05:46 -0700
At 17:21 1/29/99 +0000, A Halliwell wrote:

Replying to two of Spikes messages..

[Linux]
>Which distro are you getting?

Red Hat 5.2

[PS '98]
>I'm curious why the damned thing has to be written in VB in the first
>place. It's not exactly a portable language, is it?

Because VB is the only language that I currently know well enough to write
a full app with any confidence.

-Adam J
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Message no. 2
From: A Halliwell <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [OT] programming languages' evolution
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:56:28 +0000
And verily, did Adam J hastily scribble thusly...
|
|At 17:21 1/29/99 +0000, A Halliwell wrote:
|
|Replying to two of Spikes messages..
|
|[Linux]
|>Which distro are you getting?
|
|Red Hat 5.2

I'm a SuSE man myself...
VERY easy to install and configure.

YaST does most of the work for me. (Yet another Setup Tool)


|

|[PS '98]
|>I'm curious why the damned thing has to be written in VB in the first
|>place. It's not exactly a portable language, is it?
|
|Because VB is the only language that I currently know well enough to write
|a full app with any confidence.

You really have to learn C....
The ultimate in portable languages.
(Just use the GCC compiler that comes with Linux, and not some bastardised
version by M$)

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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a |
| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| Finalist in:- |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
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Message no. 3
From: John E Pederson <pedersje@******.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: [OT] programming languages' evolution
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:36:35 -0500
A Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, did Adam J hastily scribble thusly...
> |At 17:21 1/29/99 +0000, A Halliwell wrote:
> |>Which distro are you getting?
> |
> |Red Hat 5.2
>
> I'm a SuSE man myself...
> VERY easy to install and configure.
>
> YaST does most of the work for me. (Yet another Setup Tool)

Yeah! Unfortunately, my (Linux) hard drive hosed Monday, so I'm stuck
in that other OS...

> You really have to learn C....
> The ultimate in portable languages.
> (Just use the GCC compiler that comes with Linux, and not some bastardised
> version by M$)

Or, better yet, use EGCS instead of GCC, since EGCS actually makes an
attempt at optimising:)

Canthros
Message no. 4
From: A Halliwell <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [OT] programming languages' evolution
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:51:18 +0000
And verily, did John E Pederson hastily scribble thusly...
|Or, better yet, use EGCS instead of GCC, since EGCS actually makes an
|attempt at optimising:)

Well.... Yeeessss....
But one hell of a lot of programs out there are still written with GCC in
mind.

I think the aim is for egcs to replace gcc as the new gcc soonosh anyway.
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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a |
| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| Finalist in:- |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |

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