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>>you are a fool if you don't use VB
IMHO you are a fool to *use* it, poorly typed, interpreted, no exception handling, no resource protection, antiquated error handling , hybrid object modelling, poor Win32 API support the list goes on and on - its just not robust enough!
(steps back to avoid the barrage of insults from VB devs...)
IMHO you are a fool to *use* it, poorly typed, interpreted, no exception handling, no resource protection, antiquated error handling , hybrid object modelling, poor Win32 API support the list goes on and on - its just not robust enough!
(steps back to avoid the barrage of insults from VB devs...)
And the most popular language for the last n years has been....errmmm.....let me think......
It's suitability for purpose is denoted by it's popularity, i.e. if it wasn't fit for the job people wouldn't use it.....Unless you are doing real time embedded systems, do you really need to write your front ends in C++.....sometimes you need specifics yes (proper multithreaded middleware DLL's e.t.c e.t.c) but for the most part, VB has been the choice...cost of application ownership is lower, redevelopment costs are lower.......it's not just about the features of the language (and we all know VB falls short) it's about the dollars behind the organisations that use the languages....and we all know what language they spent em on.....
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I've found java to be an incredibly powerful language. You can do everything with it - build GUIs, database access, network programming - the lot, and you can run it on any platform you want. To those of us whose work doesn't begin and end with Microsoft bloody windows, it's great!
[Edited by popeye - 9/13/2002 6:25:41 PM]
[Edited by popeye - 9/13/2002 6:25:41 PM]
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Arguing VB vs Java is like arguing VHS vs Betamax. Java is the better language, but Visual Studio is the better development environment. Visual Studio .Net is even better.
The company I work for (
) does both Java and MS projects, for what it's worth, we've noticed a shift away from large-scale (and expensive) Java implementations to smaller (and cheaper) MS ones. Anyone else noticed the same?
[Edited by DavidRB - 9/12/2002 6:17:10 PM]
The company I work for (
) does both Java and MS projects, for what it's worth, we've noticed a shift away from large-scale (and expensive) Java implementations to smaller (and cheaper) MS ones. Anyone else noticed the same?[Edited by DavidRB - 9/12/2002 6:17:10 PM]
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