Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed

[Naba Kumar <kh_naba yahoo com>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Ben Ford">
>
> > You are making the argument for Visual Basic.  Do you remember the
> > proliferation of *very* bad programs when VB hit?  What is the next step?
> > Perl macros in email?
>
> Visual Basic was very good at one thing: It was an enabling technology. So
> many more people were able to create software (bad or not), and the platform
> was more attractive for it.
>

Many more ppl were able to create softwares (mostly bad) because there are
fewer good programmers than bad programmers.

VB is good for bad programmers and bad for good programmers.

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Regards,
-Naba

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