>> - We write "custom business applications" (so we want VB / VBA or 
>> maybe Java).
> 
> Most of that that I see is C#/VB.Net/Java



how to use VBA to make Excel "analyse complex sales bonus structures". 
Whatever the hell that means...

I guess some of the guys who want "VB" actually mean VB.NET...

>> - We write web applications, so we want JavaScript / Perl / PHP.
> 
> Or ASP.Net

Yeah, quite possibly.

>> "Everything past XP" meaning "only the latest bleeding edge OS that 
>> nobody is using yet"?
> 
> I think it was included in one of the XP service packs. XP RTM didn't, 
> but I'm sure SP1 or SP2 included .net framework

I'm fairly sure SP1 predates the existence of .NET; but it might have 
been in SP2. (There's an SP3 now isn't there?)

> Oh, and from your second statement, I didn't realise my name had been 
> changed. Hi, I'm nobody.

*sigh* Already, _almost_ nobody. Happy now? :-P

>> I don't recall that conversation, but anyway... my PC has never had it 
>> until now. (It has it *now* because I just installed MS Visual Studio, 
>> and the first thing it does is install this unwanted component.)
> 
> I'm pretty sure it did. VS has to install the sdk, but I'm willing to 
> bet you had the runtime long before that.

Then why did Windows Update keep offering to install it?

>> Isn't Delphi also long since dead? I haven't even heard its name 
>> mentioned in years...
> 
> One of my best friends has a job coding in it, so no. It's not as 
> popular as it used to be though.

Sort of like the way there's still a small market for COBOL?

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