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From: Tony Gair <tonygair@cis.com>
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/03/12
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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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