Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 13:37:00 CDT 2008
Several things puzzle me about these graphs and their market-reflections. I would have thought, for example, that Linux and Unix were interchangeable, that anyone good at Linux could apply for a Unix gig and vice-versa. But compare the gaps. Similarly, there are abundant code-translators that will switch VB.NET to C#. In fact, if you look at the two languages as in the tutorials supplied by MS, they are remarkably similar and it's no surprise that a program could go through and make the changes from one language to the other. Find the line-terminators and substitute semi-colons; flip declarations around slightly and lose the "Dim" word; wrap blocks in curly braces; etc. How hard is that? Admittedly some constructs are trickier, but it doesn't take very long looking at the step-by-step tutorial code to see the similarities. And yet the marketplace feels a greater lack of supply for C# than VB.NET, and also pays about $20 an hour more for C# too, judging by my local marketplace. This goes to prove, methinks, that elitism too has inheritance. C# is for "serious" programmers; VB for -- hmm, what's the opposite of serious? Amateur? Trivial? Casual? Pop? Anyway, you get my drift. Arthur On 3/16/08, Tina Norris Fields <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote: > > Hmmm, verrrrrry interesting. So, we had better upgrade our Java and C++ > skills, along with our Oracle and MS SQL skills. I just started a Linux > course. Looks like that might have been a smart move. > T. > >