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The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge)

The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge)

Posted Mar 3, 2004 9:17 UTC (Wed) by evgeny (subscriber, #774)
In reply to: The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge) by lvteacher
Parent article: The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge)

> However, one of the products to which Gates attributes the initial success
> of Windows is Visual Basic (VB).

IMO, a greater product (or rather idea) is registry. Not the implementation (which is quite bad), but the idea itself. We in the Unix world are not even at the .ini level, unfortunately...


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