At 04:05 04/08/96 +0100, you wrote:
> From: Ian McKellar <yakk@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
>
>> > > Anyone developing robots in VB? If not, why not? If so, I'm looking
for an
>> > > HTML parsing tool to use under VB (Prefer VB 3.0). Any help will be
>> > > appreciated.
>> >
>> > We're developing our robot in VB.
>
>> I'm quite impressed. VB seems to me to be a bit underpowered. I would use
>> Perl or C. I do hope you are using VB under NT.
>
>VB is not underpowered. Database technologies like ROCK-E-T and
>others are extremely fast and powerful (we're in the process of
>converting at the moment - the Access stuff is really bad). As a
>robot, VB is also great.. Parsing is fairly easy, and the whole
>thing runs fast .. It's not entirely finished yet, but I expect it
>will be within 5-6 weeks (other projects are being developed at the
>same time)...
>
>- Jakob Faarvang
>jakob@jubii.dk
>