Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 06, 2004 01:50 AM
"I'm comfortable with it and I have no intention of learning another."
All programmers should keep their skills up to date and seek to improve their knowledge by learning new languages. Joel on Software suggests (I think) one new language a year. You know nothing if all you have learned is from VB, it's a dumbed-down environment. I can say that because I spent a lot of time with the language. I thought I knew what I was doing until I tried to learn a new platform and was exposed to a lot of concepts I didn't know. In turn, that made me more knowledgeable about the VB work I had to do.
That you think VB is stable is laughable. I've admin'ed several well-written VB apps that crash without cause. The platform is itself is not stable. Perhaps if you ventured out from your cosy, deprecated VB world you might discover something better. Instead, you've choosen to defend the indefensable while admitting ignorance of any alternatives.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 06, 2004 01:50 AMAll programmers should keep their skills up to date and seek to improve their knowledge by learning new languages. Joel on Software suggests (I think) one new language a year. You know nothing if all you have learned is from VB, it's a dumbed-down environment. I can say that because I spent a lot of time with the language. I thought I knew what I was doing until I tried to learn a new platform and was exposed to a lot of concepts I didn't know. In turn, that made me more knowledgeable about the VB work I had to do.
That you think VB is stable is laughable. I've admin'ed several well-written VB apps that crash without cause. The platform is itself is not stable. Perhaps if you ventured out from your cosy, deprecated VB world you might discover something better. Instead, you've choosen to defend the indefensable while admitting ignorance of any alternatives.
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