[geeks] Oh my god...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, November 29, 2002 at 15:30:29 (-0500), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Oh my god...
>
> 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.

What the hell's wrong with Smalltalk!?!?!?!?!?  :-)

Obviously it's almost infinitely better than VB or Java or even Python!
(and Ruby is just a kludge for those of us without smalltalk running
full-time on _all_ of our desktop systems ;-)

As I'm sure I've mentioned before, one of Canada's "Big Five" banks has
a front-end smalltalk application running on something like 20,0000
workstations or more.....

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