Re: For Your Amusement

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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:37:16 -0500, "Robert Berman"
<BermanRL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Unfortunately Net is now
>becoming the "choice" of the new collegiate wave, and professors are
>cramming it down their students collective throats. Whilesome professors are
>still teaching Visual Basic 6 and not NET, I suspect that number will shrink
>as long as MS makes it difficult to almost impossible to get even
>educational copies of VB 6.

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I'm not convinced that the 'educational' bit is all that significant

- historically BASICs have been the language that people who have a
job to get done, grab and learn as they produce the App

- later, those people turn into 'proper' programmers, as they get
interested in coding itself

Sort of, the language for analysts who want to write their own code

VB.NET is not filling that gap
- it will probably be Ok for corporates, but they are not really the
people who produce the novel applications that make PCs useful

Nature abhors a vacuum, so it is very likely that something will fill
the gap
- my ideal would be a Delphi compiler that accepts BASIC syntax
.

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