Re: Has MS given up on us (again)?

Scott,

Don't forget that you as teacher have to deal with everything, as a user, you have the choose what you use.

This different point of view can make a big difference, don't forget that VB covers full the Net while C# does only a subset (and yes "unsafe" code). The latter text does reminds me to the movie Miss Congeniality (Sandra Bullock).

You can compare this with the natural language English, which is a language consisting originaly from mainly the old language spoken around the whole Northsea (Old England, Scotland, Danmark and Frysia (covering in past current North Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium), England and Scottland) and French (in fact Normandia). Be aware that the Enlish spoken in the USA is more or less influenced by other languages, by instance the word "cookie" is slang Dutch not English.

However this results that when non native English speakers from West Europe use mostly English words conform their Latin or Germanic culture part (the latter word has nothing to do with Germany, where a Germanic/Gallic language is used)

But that is not for a teacher of the English language here, they have to know everything and to speak it like is used in Oxford in Thames Valley.

This maybe a little bit to long text to show you that the point of view to a language makes big differences.

Cor

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