Re: java developers

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Date:

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:28:32 -0500

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On 12/3/2011 4:51 AM, Silvio Bierman wrote:

Luckily I have almost always been in a position where I could work with
my language of choice. In the remaining cases I have been forced to use
languages like Visual Basic (I disagree with other posters that it is
the right tool for anything except for further messing up an existing VB
program),

VB was actually a very good language for what it was intended
to be used for.

Java, C#, C++ etc. can do a lot of more sophisticated
stuff.

But the typical business app GUI does not need sophisticated
stuff.

And VB was simply faster and cheaper for creating those types
of apps than Java, C#, C++ etc..

Developers with good programming skills and lousy business
understanding tend to bad mouth VB - Mort etc., but ...

There are probably many reasons behind the Win8 WinRT change of
direction at MS.

But I strongly suspect that one of the reasons is that MS has
realized that C# (and VB.NET) is not a good replacement for
VB for simple GUI's, so now they are trying with HTML, CSS and
JavaScript.

Arne