Martin Gainty wrote:
On the subject of doc ..I find any specifics about VB quite difficult to
locate and blogs are not nearly as numerous as java
Interesting. Although I don't consider blogs a source of worthwild
information on anything (and yes, that includes my own!), I've always
found a wealth of VB knowledge on the web. Probably not quite as much
as Java, but still.
I would strongly encourage every academic institution to replace their
VB offerings with .NET to prepare their students for current as well as
future markets (in general)
and the OOD world (specifically)
I'd agree with that. Although, considering the difficulty we are
currently having at my company finding VB experts (I long since ceased
being an expert myself), perhaps colleges *are* preparing their students
for the work world ;) I know a COBOL programmer that just landed
himself a job making more than I am! I wouldn't be surprised if VB is
the next COBOL in that regard :)
Frank
Thanks Frank,
M-
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Martin Gainty wrote:
we just inherited some vb code that accomplishes a cryptography
algorithm
just to get this to run under windoze took me 4 hours..the lack of VB
doc was the blocking factor
or maybe its probably because Im not a VB guy and never will be
btw that same functionality can be accomplished with java libraries
in under 1 hour
Doesn't sound like a fair comparison to me... give me someone who's
not a "Java guy", like your not a VB guy, and ask them to do the same
thing... it may well take the same amount of time. Your right in that
the functionality is easier in Java, but would someone who isn't
versed in Java know that, or be able to figure it out quite as fast?
I doubt it.
why?
there are opensource sites located world-wide in other words
A little digging and some hard work on anyone's part will always get
you an answer
I cannot say the same thing for VB
Are you talking VB or VB.Net? If your talking VB, you aren't looking
in the right places. There is *plenty* of readily-available knowledge
out there about VB.
VB.Net is a different story... it's newer, and the resources haven't
had time to build up to the same level (true in general for .Net).
Give it another year or two and see what's out there. I think it'll
be comparable.
BTW: (VB).Net is an example of market forces pushing a company MS to
develop a product (.NET) that meets marketplace need
I for one welcome MS into the OOA/OOD world
I agree. And, this is one of the rare times that MS got it closer to
right than wrong the very first time. It's not perfect, I don't think
anyone is claiming it is (no one worth listening to anyway), but 1.0
wasn't bad at all, and 2.0 improves things from everything I've heard
(I'm only a casual .Net user myself).
Frank
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