[geeks] Oh my god...

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:24:56PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:

> > >   - Every bank that I've seen the inside of uses IBM 
> > > mainframes...which, as far as I'm aware, don't run VB.
> > One local bank, I don't know what they use on the back end, but their
> > client applications look suspicously like VB.
> 
> Yep.  IME, VB is actually quite a nice tool for making front-ends to real
> systems.  Same applies to Java.  Plenty of trading floors use apps written
> in-house in VB to talk to their back-end systems which run on real
> computers.

What's wrong with wxPython?  Java might be OK, although I'm still blown
away buy how awefull java applications tend to be.  Limewire comes to
mind.  However, I don't consider VB a good choice.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd