From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/26
Date: 1999-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b53kl$6f1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b4lhn$465@drn.newsguy.com
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 ` 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 [this message]
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 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dennison
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
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
1999-02-24 0:00 ` DPH
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