RE: TO LEARN PROGRAMMING

16 Aug 2006 4:14 PM

Investigator

Hi,

I dont need or want to know any of the technical details, but in connection with a job that i am doing, i need to have some expert opinion on whether it is possible, or practical, or easier or more difficult for a person who has absolutely no computer programming background to learn the VB.Net language.

Would it be easier for someone who had previously been trained in COBOL?

Thanks
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16 Aug 2006 5:09 PM

Michel Posseth [MCP]

I am currently employed in a company with 2 expert Cobol programmers who
have switched to VB.Net and i can`t say anything else as that these 2 have
picked VB up pretty easy and fast , so in my opinion Yes it would definetly
be easier for a person who has already programming experience in Cobol as
for a Noob

hth

Michel Posseth [MCP]

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> Hi,
>
> I dont need or want to know any of the technical details, but in
> connection with a job that i am doing, i need to have some expert opinion
> on whether it is possible, or practical, or easier or more difficult for a
> person who has absolutely no computer programming background to learn the
> VB.Net language.
>
> Would it be easier for someone who had previously been trained in COBOL?
>
> Thanks
> Investigator
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16 Aug 2006 5:23 PM

Cor Ligthert [MVP]

Hi,

I have the same idea as Michael, VBNet has a lot the same as Cobol, although
I have never seen such a strong program word as the Cobol Perform in any
programming language.

Your most difficult part will probably be that you don't control the memory
anymore, but that all kind of values or whatever are not equal to any memory
design. They are somewhere, and with objects that is even less defined.

This of course as you are used to structured Cobol or in other words don't
use any go to (that is not the only thing from stuctured programming but
mostly go those parallel)..

Just some idea's

Cor

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> Hi,
>
> I dont need or want to know any of the technical details, but in
> connection with a job that i am doing, i need to have some expert opinion
> on whether it is possible, or practical, or easier or more difficult for a
> person who has absolutely no computer programming background to learn the
> VB.Net language.
>
> Would it be easier for someone who had previously been trained in COBOL?
>
> Thanks
> Investigator
>
> From
> http://www.developmentnow.com/g/38_2003_10_0_0_228423/TO-LEARN-PROGRAMMING.htm
>
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17 Aug 2006 11:59 AM

dgk

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:23:53 +0200, "Cor Ligthert [MVP]"
<notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote:

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>Hi,
>
>I have the same idea as Michael, VBNet has a lot the same as Cobol, although
>I have never seen such a strong program word as the Cobol Perform in any
>programming language.
>
>Your most difficult part will probably be that you don't control the memory
>anymore, but that all kind of values or whatever are not equal to any memory
>design. They are somewhere, and with objects that is even less defined.
>
>This of course as you are used to structured Cobol or in other words don't
>use any go to (that is not the only thing from stuctured programming but
>mostly go those parallel)..
>
>Just some idea's
>
>Cor

I was always partial to ALTER myself.

17 Aug 2006 12:17 PM

Cor Ligthert [MVP]

>
> I was always partial to ALTER myself.

I have the idea that some people want a kind of those in VB as well because
it is in C as well.

When you have seen my reactions on that, than you probably understand what
the base is for that

:-)

Cor

17 Aug 2006 4:04 PM

dgk

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:17:27 +0200, "Cor Ligthert [MVP]"
<notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote:

>>
>> I was always partial to ALTER myself.
>
>I have the idea that some people want a kind of those in VB as well because
>it is in C as well.
>
>When you have seen my reactions on that, than you probably understand what
>the base is for that
>
>:-)
>
>Cor
>

I do a fair amount of work in a language called MUMPS, and it allows
indirection and other creative and very difficult to debug techniques.
For instance,

Set A="hi"
Write A

>"hi"

Set B="A"
Set @B="TEST"
Write A

>"TEST"

so that @ is the indirection operator.

You can also set a variable to a string of code and then execute it.

Set A="Set B=10"
Xecute A
Write B

>10

Sort of cool but not something you really want to do very much.