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Old 11-18-10, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by slynkie
keeping my thoughts to myself...
I learned VB back in the early to mid 1990's. The reason was that I was running my department's first webserver off of my desktop and that was "running" Windows 3.1. I found that running CGI scripts in anything other than a "native" language would quickly crash the server due to horrible memory leakage and there wasn't that much memory in that old 486 machine. Each "call" invoked a virtual machine and you never did get all of the memory back. Can you imagine running Perl scripts in that environment? Running CGI's in VB solved that problem.
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