Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Mon Mar 15 10:18:21 CDT 2010
> filter to weed out the less capable / dedicated programmer. Careful, there, John. GRrrrr Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 7:00 AM To: dwaters at usinternet.com; Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues. Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Recent Discussion from MS on VB.Net and C# in VS 2010 That ignores the psychological phenomenon where scarcity implies value. "preferred" is not valuable with qualifying that. "Preferred" by who? It is already preferred by the beginning programmer. The employer however may actually use the "C# is harder" as a natural filter to weed out the less capable / dedicated programmer. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Dan Waters wrote: > http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwil/archive/2010/03/09/vb-and-c-coevolution.aspx > > This is pretty good info - I think. It looks like the functionality > differences between the two languages from now on will be inconsequential. > For that reason, I'm going to predict that over time VB.Net will become the > preferred language - just because it's easier to start with because it's > easier to read. > > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com