Pitfalls For Visual Basic

• Platform-challenged:

  • GUI builder and VBX's run on PCs only.
  • No strategy for heterogenous environments.

• Not embeddable (even with VBA).

• Scripts aren't first-class objects:

  • Can't generate on the fly.
  • No eval.

• No security.

• Not suitable for Internet/enterprise applications (yet).

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