RE: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic

>There was no concept of "well behaved" Windows code 
>until the whole .NET thing; 

There was absolutely dos and don'ts. Do use documented APIs, Don't
access internal structures or hardware. That's not to say you couldn't
do it, there was no OS or hardware-level prevention of the "don'ts", but
MS has always been good at moving APIs forward. Undocumented things are,
well, um, undocumented. Now I grant that it was quite often necessary to
do things that were undocumetned to do "cool" things, but not to do the
things Windows was designed for at the time.

>Don't lay this crap on the programmer; it's the fact 
>that the OS was never really a business OS.

Sure, I'll admit Windows 3.1 wasn't ready for business, heck the entire
95/98/ME line was a joke. But the NT/XP line, and 2003 Server is a
wholely different beast. You're complaining that a Ford Model T was a
pleasant toy, so a Mac truck isn't a good business machine.

-Walden


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