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In article <389tj9$fmj@Mercury.mcs.com>, Thomas H. Moog <tmoog@MCS.COM> wrote:
:A choice of scripting languages ?
:
:share software between users. One party that wasn't adversely affected
:by the inability of the Unix vendors to agree on a "standard" was
:Microsoft - that's for sure.
:

On the other hand, Microsoft has things like visual basic, visual c, visual
c--, etc. and so they too see the need to provide various programming languageds
into the user community.  Or at least they see the financial benefits.  What
is interesting is that friends who have these software packages indicate that
their 'widgets' (extensions, whatever you want to call them) can in many cases
be used across languages - a useful concept which doesn't seem to be making
it into the Unix arena.
-- 
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