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From: aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Visual Basic
Message-ID: <1991May22.204708.17674@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 May 91 20:47:08 GMT
Sender: Aaron Wallace
Reply-To: aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Aaron Wallace)
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Hi!
I've just read some *very* good reviews of this package.  Has anyone had
a chance to toy with it yet?  Is it as earth-shattering as Mr. "SpinRite"
says in his InfoWorld blurb (5-21-91)?  Is this going to be the "hypercard"
of Windows, or is this more "hype."

For the uninformed: from what I can glean it's an incrementally-compiled BASIC-
based Windows scripting language that actually produces good, small code
with minimal effort.

Enquiring minds want to know if MS finally produced something that actually
halfway resembles a usable compiler, or should I go back to reading my
Turbo Pascal/Windows manual...?

Aaron Wallace