“Next Year: Security”

I just found this smarmy comment in Paul Anderson's editorial at the top of CNET's Web Building newsletter for this week. He's talking about .NET, and the significance of Visual Studio .NET's release this week.

It offers all languages a common runtime (think virtual machine) and uses Web services to reinvent component architecture. Visual Basic looks less like a scripting language, while Active Server Pages (ASP) reciprocate Java Server Pages' (JSP's) flattery with compiled templates. This is progress. Next year they hope to add security.

That last sentence is excellent.