Re: For Your Amusement

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On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:26:38 +0000 (UTC), erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx (J French) wrote:
in <43885d84.186379426@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

I really like the way you think! I agree that something will come along to fill
the void as Microsoft quietly takes its place alongside all of the other has
beens like DEC and IBM.

---
Stefan Berglund
.

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