Re: VB vs C#


Well maybe the hole derived from is wrong for the basic part :-( as also
basic goes back to 1963 ,,, however fact is that classic Basic looks a lot
like Fortran , but it seems it has also inherited from ALGOL

maybe i should have said

spoken notation ( wich COBOL also fits ) against scientific notation

By the way i just saw on a history path list that COBOL has it`s own line
without anny branches

regards


Michel

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstname@xxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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Michel,

Just that I saw it, change your Fortran advice to the C# part. Fortran was
a kind of less complex language in the same area as Algol. Both based on
algebraic way of describing processes.

Cobol is surely not derived from Fortran, there have been heavier
discussiong between Fortan and Cobol people than there ever can be between
C and VB types of languages.

Cor

"Michel Posseth [MCP]" <msnews@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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Well for previous VB6 proggers i would definedly say move to VB.Net , buy
the Balena books ( programming microsoft visual basic series i would
still buy the 2003 and 2005 version )
as they have special attention for VB6 proggers an in a few days you wil
at least feel at home :-)

If you would like to earn more money , or beat yourself on the chest that
you are a C style progger well then go for C# you wil now have a much
higher learning curve but once you code in C# and with your VB6
background VB.Net is peanuts , on the other hand when you code in
VB.net with option strict on and option explicit on ( wich i would highly
recomend you do ) and try to use as much as possible FCL code instead of
the language enhancement code that VB provides ( len() vs string.length
etc etc ) well then reading and writing C# code is also peanuts

So my recomendation previous language derived from Algol ( C++ ,
lphi ) go for C#
previous language derived from Fortran
( Cobol , Basic ) go for VB.Net


As you see this hole discussion goes back to the start of programming ,
and wich one is better ??? well it is probably the same thing as saying
that Ferrari is bether as Lamborghini and should be seen as a personal
preference .

regards

Michel Posseth (
Can code in both but just prefer VB as it is my native tongue :-) )



"Mark" <analizer12@xxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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hi i would like you all to let me now some pro's and con's
between vb.net and c#

We do alot of online transactions mssql2005
back end services, processing ,email, fpt, vpn etc.
and front end web reporting, ftp, information pages

tia
mark










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