[DLC] Part Time Coding

[Matthew P Kemp]

Wow.  A lot of chatter about winbatch, but no takers.  Email me
off-list if you're interested, or want to know more.


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On 3/3/07, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> I think WinBatch was 3rd party, actually.  Microsoft's .bat replacement was
> Windows Scripting Host, which in theory supported multiple scripting
> languages but in practice was mostly JScript (Microsoft's "embraced and
> extended" Javascript, circa 1998).  I don't recall WSH ever going anywhere
> because, like anything MS developed in the past decade, it was quickly taken
> over by spammers and trojans and virus writers and other lower life forms
> because it was badly implemented.
>
> I never got into WSH, although back in the day I was a batch file fiend. :-)
>
> On Friday 02 March 2007 9:51 pm, Samir Faci wrote:
> > Winbatch is horrendous from the limited exposure I've had with it.
> >
> > think of winbatch as a limited version of shell scripting.  it tried
> > to add a bit more functionality to batch files, though I though even
> > msft was fazing that out.. I forget what they're replacing with, but
> > I'm sure they got something that's better then winbatch.
> >
> > (wow.. just drew a blank trying to remember batch file.. *shivers* at
> > recollections of .bat files)
> >
> > I presume it would be a bit of both as far as coding, though I'll let
> > the individual who posted the email answer that.
> >
> > --
> > Samir
> >
> > On 3/2/07, Hal Wigoda <hwigoda at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > > coding in what?
> > >
> > > perl or winbatch?
> > >
> > > never heard of winbatch.
> > >
> > > On Mar 2, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Matthew P Kemp wrote:
> > > > Is anybody interested in doing some coding on a part-time basis?  I
> > > > know this is a linux list, but it would be up to preference of the
> > > > developer to do perl or winbatch (I know, I know winbatch..but it's
> > > > what's in place).  It would probably have to run on a windows box.
> > > > Contact me if interested.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Matthew P Kemp
>
>
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