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June 24, 2003

Those VB types

Sean Neville:

The value here is not so much in attracting Visual Basic developers to Java... The real value is in giving non-Java developers and those who are not going to learn any programming language the power to create applications and services through simple tag and script-based development models and highly-customizable components and services that can be imported, integrated, and managed within simple lightweight tools (as opposed to full enterprise IDEs)... these folks – you know, the people in the world who aren’t geeks like you and me – ought to have a better baseline option than Visual Basic and VS.NET.
Right on. Some random data points from my POV: InfoPath, Squeak eToys, Notes, Hypercard. DHTML.