I was a die-hard Amiga programmer years ago and swore never to put a PC on my desk at home. Unfortunately they used them at work, so I was forced to learn it.
After a few years of being a broke enthusiast on the Amiga, I wrote a business app on the PC in Visual C and VB3. It was my first Windows app, and I sold it for 6 figures to a Fortune 100 company. I quit that day job, started my first software company, and the PC has been on my desk ever since. Although I did abandon VB before VB4 came out (in favor of C/C++) I have been using Visual development tools ever since. So you guys can knock it all you like ... I and thousands of others have made quite a pile of money spinning Microsoft-driven products :) Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: James Steward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:16 PM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subject: RE: [sqlite] Improving performance of SQLite. Anyone > heard ofDevic eSQL? > > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 15:30 -0600, Fred Williams wrote: > > A hundred or so Visual Basic programmers are cheaper to replace and > > "maintain" than one good Delphi/C++ programmer. ;-) That > is the reason > > management likes "Visual XXXX." Been there, learned that. Hire the > > staff from the largest pool, not the most effective. > Besides it's damn > > hard to be a prima donna, when your replacement is ready to jump off > > that forklift and learn a cushy job. > > Ouch. Lucky Visual XXXX is not a cross platform language. Show the > Visual XXXX programmers a bit of Tcl/Tk and watch them wilt! > > It looks like Xilinx wrote their entire ISE GUI in Tcl/Tk, and the > backend apps are cross compiled. I can run it on Linux as well as > NoDose, and the GUI is identical. Try that in Visual poop. > > You might have cheap programmers today, but tomorrow they will be less > useful. Look out for Tux! > > At every planning meeting I push open source, and cross platform > solutions, because I know today the majority is still under Bill's > spell, but the magic in Vista is fading... > > > Ciao. > James. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
