VB,C#: Me My This That
VB or C#? "Me and My" or "This and That?" Take your pick. Something I keep seeing is that VB.net and C# are just different flavours of the same chewin' gum. And neither of them have much to do with C++ or with VB 6,5,4 etc. Short sighted little people make me chuckle quietly to myself. To wit: Kiddie wheels like "My" are exactly what gave VB its "for dummies" image.
I don't need to tell you (my clever and consistent reader) that this type of thinking relies on the following logical fallacy: Lowering the floor will lower the ceiling.
You and I don't buy into that brand of thought. Do we? And if other people buy into it, we laugh and help them understand why that kind of thinking is flawed. Don't we?
'Anony Mous' on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:54:51 GMT, sez: However, it is true that lowering the floor will increase the distance between the ceiling and the floor. This is a scary thought considering the existing gap (check out some of the c#/vb language forum questions...).
'sg' on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:59:47 GMT, sez: yes mrs Mous entirely
true but you have got
to crawl
before you walk
before you run
before you fly
before you get sucked into a jet engine etc
i think
'Gareth' on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:38:32 GMT, sez: Almost all of VB.NET's swishy shortcutting features are available to C# anyway.
Loads of my C# projects import the Microsoft.VisualBasic library so I can do lazy things like Interaction.GetSetting for registry storage.
People sneer at this kind of thing, but I'm not entirely clear why.
'mike' on Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:49:22 GMT, sez: I've never understood the attitude that programming should not be made easier, and that only Real Programmers should be allowed to program, preferrably in a language that can take down the OS occasionally. Sounds like an inferiority complex to me, in which people are threatened by beginners ... :-)
'' on Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:20:15 GMT, sez: "I've never understood the attitude that programming should not be made easier..."
Adding more won't make it easier: your shortcut today is my wtf? tommorow.
Fewer, simple rules is easier then adding My/That and then having them used, oh, sometimes, but not consistently, and changing in version 3, but not for sure...
'Brett' on Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:39:55 GMT, sez: It isn't making programming easier that is the problem, it is making bad programming easier that is the problem.
You aren't making it easier for the novice programmers to learn, you are making it easier for the lazy programmers not to learn.
Lowering the floor lowers the ceiling when all documentation and samples coddle the people on the floor. Eventually the people on the ceiling get sick of it and move on to something else.
'http://' on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:57:18 GMT, sez: "I've never understood the attitude that programming should not be made easier, and that only Real Programmers should be allowed to program, preferrably in a language that can take down the OS occasionally. "
Because most "programmers" nowadays are lucky if they understand how a computer works.
'Brett' on Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:09:38 GMT, sez: Who are you arguing with? I didn't say any of those things.
'Brett' on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:50:13 GMT, sez: Sorry, I misunderstood that last comment. I didn't notice the quotes around the first paragraph indicating it was quoting from above. Nevermind.
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