Re: java developers
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On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
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.
I don't think that's true, actually. Anything simple can be done in a
spreadsheet, or Access, FileMaker, or similar. Anything too complex to do
with one of those is complex enough to benefit from using a real language
rather than VB.
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.
Interesting thought.
tom
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