On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
>After playing with BeOS a while something occurred to me. Does anyone remember
>at what point operating systems stopped coming with development tools? I'm
Well, some didn't. OS/2 came/comes with REXX, which isn't really much,
I'll admit; Linux comes with just about everything under the sun; The IBM
PC used to have BASIC in ROM, but they got rid of it for some reason.
Q-BASIC was a demo version of QuickBasic, less useful because it couldn't
create .EXE files. By the time of Windows 95, QuickBasic was long
obsolete, and there was no reason to include Q-BASIC. MacOS is probably
the hardest to get development tools for, especially because one needs to
read the Inside Macintosh books as well. Currently, MacOS comes with
Applescript, which (I've heard) isn't bad. In Windows, VBScript/ActiveX
and Java can be used from a web browser, and WordBasic can be used in the
MS Office programs.
Ever since I began to use Linux, I stopped taking MS and Apple seriously,
so it doesn't bother me that much :)
--Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
Received on Fri Jun 18 1999 - 15:14:36 BST