From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-08-23T17:40:02+09:00
Subject: Re: the mindshare of Ruby (was)

Seth Kurtzberg <research@isec.us> wrote:
> In fact, what is Microsoft's successful language?  Visual Basic.  I 
> rest my case.

I think VB is more a case of a restricted-purpose language being so good
at what it did that it started being used for things for which it was
inadequate. It's still the best language I know of to quickly glue
windows components into a GUI.

martin