DL'ed Visual Express ZZzzzZZZzzz

Post by **Dare2** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:45 pm

Heard the the MS express beta software was a move towards simplification of the interface. Also (perhaps mis)understood that it was not net.

Alas, it required net.

Anyhow, downloaded. Started install. Started kettle. Made coffee. Drank coffee. Scratched itchy parts. Watched the pretty progress bar. Had a chat with someone.

Finally .... !

Waded through the (simple to save you time ??) registration process.

Now, somewhere, buried under reams of bumf and verbosity, is a simplified interface. lol.

I wonder how long it will take to uninstall?

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:08 pm

I need to send this post to a friend of mine who gives me a hard time about not programming with the .Net platform.

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:09 pm

Heh... .net express is pretty crappy. You're better off downloading the MSVC free compiler and using a third party ide

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:48 pm

Carl Sassenrath's experiences of installing Visual Studio.net

http://www.rebol.net/article/0124.html

I sat at my desk and stared at my screen for a good while. I thought back on the dozens of computer languages I had learned over the years, and some of the powerful IDEs, most of which are now long gone. I thought of systems like Smalltalk, Lisp (including so many nice environments like the MIT/Symbolics Lisp Machine, TI Lisp Explorer, Expertelligence, and others), Scheme, Logo, Self, Clu, and even Forth, BASIC, Java, Python, C, C++, and so many others. I wondered how the world of teaching programming and computer science had come to what we had just experienced.

dmoc · Post by **dmoc** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:02 pm

You use Rebol GedB? I took a look this morning, saw price, and jumped to Ruby

Post by **Dare2** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:05 pm

GedB wrote:Carl Sassenrath's experiences of installing Visual Studio.net

Edit:

PS: I still haven't found out how to get the three free online books they promised if I went through all this ...

hehe. They can keep the books, I now have a lifetime of reading to do before I can find/use the software.

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:06 pm

Rebol is free for the basic package.

http://www.rebol.com/view-platforms.html

Post by **Dare2** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:24 am

Here's a chuckle:
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-winxp
Interesting links!