Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[sheercon@earthlink.net]

IHXO wrote:

> Steve Mentzer wrote:
>
> > >
> > >What are you,  a shareholder of Microsoft? Your blatent contempt for anything
> > >anti-microsoft makes me wonder why you are even in this newsgroup.
> > >
> >
> > I am contemptuous towards other operating systems because I choose NOT to write
> > software for them? When apple makes software development as EASY and EFFICIENT
> > as it is for Win32, then I will start writing apps that port to other
> > platforms.
> >
> > But I am not going to use archaic tools and development environments that are
> > technically inferior just because I should "think different".
> >
>
> well you mean as easy as Visual Basic ??
> well, I don't really see ppl program in Visual Basic as programmers. Usually 5 out
> of 10 Visual Basic programmers are from CIS major and the other 5 are MCSE
> certified, these people don't really understand what is progrmming,they are just
> trained to use Visual Basic to make a program, but make a program is not
> programming (hope you understand, poor soul). If you want to have Visual Basic
> experience on Mac, go for Real Basic.
>

Does one even /need/ to go to school to learn Visual Basic? With regular basic you
could memorize all of the commands in 30 minutes and you knew how to "program" in it.
I've seen Visual Basic - it looks even easier; with forms and windows you need even
less programming knowledge. At least they got rid of the line numbers. I always
understood BASIC to be a sloppy programming language but good for school children;
hence the name - Beginners all purpose symbolic instruction code. It must have grown up
however if companies are paying people to program with it.(or is it like html
"programming" positions that pay a little more than minimum wage? heh)

Brian