Re: Which language used most? VB vs C?

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"Michael C" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Then you sidetrack them with { 3["something"]; } or they get burnt
because
a
char constant is actually an int, or why walking of the end of an array
or
an uninitialized pointer sailed through with flying colors in debug -
but
died spectacularly when released. Yadda, yadda...

So 21 days they look even, in 42 days the C programmer is definitely
behind.

That really depends on how you define behind. The VB programmer will
definately be make fancier apps and look like they are ahead but the C
programmer will be learning more valuable skills. I started with high
level
languages and worked all the way down to assembler for circuits I designed
myself but wish I'd done it the other way around.

You really have to look over the shoulders of these new kids. They
struggle
with the framework and it is impossible to do anything meaningful
without
it. They do a lot of copy and paste and it works - but they have no clue
why.

How is that different from activeX libraries in vb6?

Michael


Absolutely no debate about a C programmer perhaps 'learning more valuable
skills'. Which is exactly my point.

The difference between the Framework and a VBer's association with ActiveX
can be best summed up by the number of them, turning out production code,
that quite proudly announce they don't do OO and never mess with 'classes'.
Yet they use the Form designer, use Data Access libraries, create custom
controls, ie. call up a host of components.

No one working with the Framework would fail to make that association. <g>

-ralph


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