Re: Whidbey - Why is refactoring not in VB.NET?
From: Francisco (nomail_at_baseball.net)
Date: 03/15/04
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:39:08 -0500
I think ms sounded like a candidate when they said that 'it will be a
matter of what language you feel more confortable with'
francisco
"David Lowndes" <davidl@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> >Thanks for supporting me one this one. I guess you vote as a MVP counts
more
> >than mine.
>
> I don't think so, we're all in the same boat, I'm just another
> customer.
>
> >And as a C++ developer, you must really suffer form the missing
productivity
> >features that VB and C# community developers have.
>
> C++ seems to be last in line for productivity features - which is a
> pity since it's the most capable language. I suspect that MS internal
> developers (for their big products such as Office and Exchange) are
> holding back on managed code until they get a really good C++
> implementation.
>
> >But I'm sure that all you
> >C++ developers don't want those productive features anyway.... not!
>
> Of course we don't, we love to do things the hard way, it makes us
> tougher ;)
>
> >I'm not sure that I share you point of only having only one language. In
> >theory you are right, but in real life it is not a matter of which
syntax
> >one prefer, it is a matter of bringing as many developers to the .NET
> >platform as possible.
>
> I can understand that the marketing story behind supporting multiple
> languages had a lot of selling power - it sold me at first. It's a
> good differentiator from the Java story. Unfortunately, with the
> diversification of MS .Net language productivity features, I think it
> deserves to backfire.
>
> >... And I'll beet that a lot of VB developers would never
> >take the shift to .NET if the language was C#, and also a C++, J++ or
Java
> >developer would never accept the VB Syntax. Personally I would not have a
> >problem, but everybody else would.
>
> I think that a lot of developers would object initially, but in the
> long run they'd accept it as being a cleaner situation to deal with.
>
> Dave
> --
> MVP VC++ FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/vcfaq
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