Re: Killing VB softly with his song, Killing VB softly...with a so

I believe VB (Basic) has been around for over 40 years (used to be called
FORTRAN!

Just could be that C and C++ will slowly disappear and not VB!
--
Dennis in Houston


"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" wrote:

> Clinton,
>
> Going on in your message (at the middle I go over more to the exact
> subject). That people is in this century is speaking often English as
> communication language is something that started in the previous century.
>
> It has always be French and there is forever thought that it would stay
> French.. Why would the world learn English which is only spoken by 8% of the
> world population.
>
> While new financial powers can be in the future China and/or India, which
> uses languages that are spoken by much more people in the world.
>
> You over estimate the role of the English language in the world as a lot of
> English people do. The same is often done by only French or Russian speaking
> people.
>
> Don't forget that English is really a bad language when it is compared with
> much other languages. (Not Dutch that is even worse).
>
> And than coming back to your subject. This is in my opinion the same with
> program languages. Don't see it only from your focus, it will probably
> change. I got a nice message from somebody in the newsgroup General who
> showed me this.
>
> http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html#01
>
> This looks to me as something from the begin of the evolution, one of the
> interesting things in it is that VB (Basic) together with Cobol has the
> longest straight line.
>
> You talk about AJAX (An in Europe famous Amsterdam football club (for you
> soccer)).
>
> Ken has set this sample on our website, I thought that it has as much
> JScript as VBNet code in it.
>
> http://www.vb-tips.com/default.aspx?ID=12499601-19c8-43bf-94bd-73214b27750c
>
> I don't believe that the current languages will be used in future, as well
> do I not believe that there will be one language in the world, as that in
> the Bible is written there was before the time of the of the tower of
> Babylon..
>
> Just my thought,
>
> Cor
>
>
>
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