From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a4a373312601ca4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy Date: 1999/02/26 Message-ID: <7b53kl$6f1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 448549598 References: <36CC64A1.3E98D9B4@Botton.com> <7avmc6$gvf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b16dn$p0e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1999Feb24.131906.1@eisner> <7b3oah$teq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4fod$kd4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4lhn$465@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x2.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 26 03:15:41 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7b4lhn$465@drn.newsguy.com>, bill wrote: > In article <7b4fod$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! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own