RE: FN-FORUM: Null testing problem

date posted 4th January 2006 20:59

Ah - the Sinclair Spectrum. My area of expertise!

Check out my site at www.sinclair-heaven.net or www.worldofspectrum.org to
REALLY bring back the memories!

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Andy
Macnaughton-Jones
Sent: 04 January 2006 14:32
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Null testing problem


It's actually more annoying when you're trying to deal with "HR" people.
A lot of the "anti-VB" sentiment comes from the route that people often
take;

MS Access > ASP > VB

Means

Clunky Code > Cluttered Badly Written Code > Nightmare

So by saying that you need to use C# or Java tends to remove the
"hobbiest" from the equation.

Other languages tend to force you to at least attempt to write
structured logical code whereas the others let you start with bad habits
and then perpetuate them. I've been programming in VB since version 1.0
(and I chose it because I have no formal programming training - I learnt
(as many) on a Sinclair Spectrum (please feel free to start a different
thread !) and therefore it was just BASIC) so it's my Language of
Choice. Obviously you have to learn other languages in order to
integrate things (SQL, javascript for example) but you're nearly always
going to have one preferred langauge to develop under.



Cheers
Andy








-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Damon
Birch
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:17 PM
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Null testing problem


>On Wednesday 04 Jan 2006 1:44 pm, Dai Williams wrote:
>> Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
>> > It's always going to be an
>> > each to their own when it comes to languages and it's often down to

>> > what you use first.
>>
>> Agreed. I poke fun at vb largely in jest.

>Me too. What I wrote didn't come out quite the way I intended and has
>no doubt managed to offend people - apologies.


Come on guys. No MS in-fighting (although c# is better ;)

Save your energies for the battle against the pseudo-languages (php etc)


Damon


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