> I shouldn't be looked down on using a language -- like VB6 that is
> more popular than anything else .NET
>
> Excel Macros; Word Macros; Access Modules; Outlook Macros, DTS
> Packages
>
> can VB.net do any of those?
>
> I just swear that we used to be able to use a single language and now
> we can't do anything without three languages.

> Aaron, you may not be a "junior programmer," but everyone thinks you are
> because of your attutide. I find your lack of historical programming perspective
> amazing. Perhaps you are not aware of how programming was done even just
> 20 or 25 years ago. Every programmer needed to know and use multiple programmable
> systems every single day. Take Unix System V, from AT&T (Bell Labs). Anyone
> working on that system had to know C, sh (or csh or ksh or bourne-shell)
> scripting, awk, x/troff (if you ever wanted to write documentation), man
> (if you ever wanted to write functional documentation), plus the various
> macro languages piled on top of these applications, and they had type it
> all three different editors: vi, ex, and sed (and for some, emacs). Then
> there were all of the esoteric command-line options for hundreds of commands.
> Every programmer had a worn-out copy of the System V user's guide on his
> or her desk, and it was accessed several times per hour. And if you used
> a 4GL on top of that, you needed to know that system's "language" as well.
>
> I myself have had to use four or five different flavors of Basic, three different
> C compilers with their slight variations, half-a-dozen platform-specific
> GUI class libraries, Pascal, LISP, C++, assembly language, a few 4GL languages,
> many of the various HTML-related technologies, and probably a dozen different
> scripting technologies, all strewn across nine or ten operating systems.
> And I haven't done half of what many programmers have had to put up with
> over the years. It may be a burden for you to learn three languages, but
> we all do it, and are richer for it. Actually, it's been a joy to experience
> them all (except for one or two 4GLs :-), and if Microsoft or whoever comes
> after them comes up with something new that takes the programming world by
> storm, I will probably jump right in.
>
> -----
> Tim Patrick - www.timaki.com
> Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005
>
> > I shouldn't be looked down on using a language -- like VB6 that is
> > more popular than anything else .NET
> >
> > Excel Macros; Word Macros; Access Modules; Outlook Macros, DTS
> > Packages
> >
> > can VB.net do any of those?
> >
> > I just swear that we used to be able to use a single language and now
> > we can't do anything without three languages.

"Not aA Master Programmer" <master_program***@outgun.com> wrote in message
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> VS.NET - one small step for self important C++ prgrammers at
> Microsoft......
>
> ..... One giant leap backwards for Visual Basic developers
>
> - Visual Studio.NET, why write 20 lines of code when you can make it
> 100 (stupid)
> - Turn useful recordsets in less useful XML based format (stupid)
> - Use compiled code instead of a scripting language for web sites
> (stupid)
> - Call it VB but completely change the language (stupid)
> - Create a web site IDE designer that can make apps - but not web sites
> (stupid)
>
> The Grand Void