From: Tony Gair <tonygair@cis.com>
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/03/12
Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36E91B8F.AD535FAC@cis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b53kl$6f1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
Having worked in ADA and VB I can't really see how they really compare,
both are brilliant at what they do. I still hate microsoft though.....
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> In article <7b4lhn$465@drn.newsguy.com>,
> bill <bill@newsguy.com> wrote:
> > In article <7b4fod$kd4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
>
> > >(just in case people are unaware, Visual Basic has the
> > > great majority of the PC development market at the
> > > moment, one study I saw gave it 70% of this developer's
> > > market).
> > ^^^^^^
> >
> > man, this is so depressing :(
> >
> > Bill.
>
> You are allowed to be depressed only if you know what
> VB is all about :-)
>
> I am always amazed at how many people assume that VB is
> the same Basic they knew and hated as kids, and deprecate
> it without knowing anything at all about it.
>
> In the Ada world, we hate it when people dismiss Ada
> without knowing anything about it, let's not make the
> same mistake with respect to other languages.
>
> In fact VB is a very interesting programming environment,
> and there are a number of fundamental ideas and features
> that are put together in quite a nice coherent fashion.
> Yes, there are many decrepit aspects, but when a language
> is really popular, mine for good ideas, don't just dismiss!
>
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-18 0:00 CompUSA New Policy David Botton
1999-02-24 0:00 ` schrader01
1999-02-24 0:00 ` DPH
1999-02-24 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` fmanning
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-02-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Tony Gair [this message]
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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