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aaron_kempf_at_hotmail.com
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:42:29 -0800

uh i just use the checksum function

wtf why would i want to sort in an application, i can sort everything i need
on the database side.

it's like-- use the tools you have instead of trying to duplicate
functionality in the wrong tier.

i can do a bubble sort; anything like that.. these sorts are made a lot
easier in vb.net

aaron

"Harlan Grove" <hrlngrv@aol.com> wrote in message
news:eES%23pDZ6EHA.2552@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> <aaron_kempf@hotmail.com> wrote...
> >klunkiness of VB
> >
> >hahahahahha
> >
> >it's got _EVERYTHIGN_ those other languages have and then some.
> ...
>
> Really? How do you write a hash table in VB? Hashes are an integral data
> structure in Perl and most other scripting languages. How do you write
> pointers or references to functions in VB so you can, e.g., write a single
> topological sort routine that accepts a comparison function (like StrComp
> for strings) as a parameter? Again, Perl and the other object oriented
> scripting languages, C/C++, Java, even some dialects of Pascal provide
this.
> How about the lack of short circuit boolean evaluation which makes some
> conditional checks require two or more If blocks rather than one, thus
> unnecessarily complicating the logic? How about the lack of C's continue
or
> Perl's next statements which eliminate the need for many If blocks or
GoTos
> as opposed to single line If statements inside loops?
>
> >it has better errorhandling.. it has better _PERFORMANCE_ than other
> >languages out there.
>
> Clueless again!
>
> Presumably you mean VB per se rather than VB.Net since VB.Net is just
> another language generating virtual machine code for .Net to execute.
>
> Does VB provide anything more than 'On Error GoTo <label in current proc>'
> and 'On Error Resume Next'? Have you ever seen a performance comparison
> between VB and any scripting language for any serious text
transformations?
> Have you ever seen a comparison of calculating eigenvectors and
eigenvalues
> of square matrices between VB and FORTRAN? (Since any halfway intelligent
VB
> developer would call routines in LINPACK or LAPACK, they'd actually be
using
> compiled FORTRAN libraries, so not a real comparison.) How many operating
> systems or hardware device drivers are writen in VB?
>
> >VB has momentum. VB has marketshare.
>
> We differ on whether
>
> market share = better language
>
> vs
>
> market share = dominant monopoly pushing it
>
> Also another example of your lack of perspective. Since your so mired in a
> Windows shop you just don't factor in development on non-Windows OSs. VB
is
> nothing outside Windows.
>
> >it is ridiculous to even consider other languages.
>
> In the same way it's ridiculous to consider anything other than English as
a
> human language. If all you speak is English and you lack the intelligence
> and/or perseverence to learn anything else, yelling at everyone else to
> speak English may have some appeal. That's what your databases & VB
ranting
> is equivalent to.
>
> Clearly you don't understand numerical programming. While VB is not
> significantly worse than most other procedural languages for numerical
> programming, it ain't APL or FORTRAN . . . or MatLab.
>
>

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