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From: Ken Halter on 19 Jan 2009 00:14 "Bill McCarthy" <TPASoft.com Are Identity Thieves> wrote in message news:%238h$r9ceJHA.3692(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > "Ken Halter" <Ken_Halter(a)Use_Sparingly_Hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:OKNRBetdJHA.5344(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> >> Holy smokes! An unbiased opinion! Say it ain't so! > > "Unbiased" is when you look at the facts Ken, not when you post a link to Ummmm.... FOAD bill... in every sense of the phrase. How are those knee pads holding up? Still working on that degree in wrapping twolips?
From: Ken Halter on 19 Jan 2009 00:26 "Bill McCarthy" <TPASoft.com Are Identity Thieves> wrote in message news:%238h$r9ceJHA.3692(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... BTW... I thought you *swore* up and down, for months on end that VB6 developers were a bunch of idiots and "wannabe" developers. WHY are you here? dotNet q/a's are too hard for you? Why don't you go *there* and answer a question, once in a while?... oh... forgot... that post count stuff, right? Weenie boy bill. That's his name. Hypocrisy is his favorite game... Here's an idea for that soupy grey matter of yours... block my posts.. mmmmkay? Don't worry about me changing my ID in any way, either. It's been the same for years.
From: Ken Halter on 19 Jan 2009 17:14 "Bee" <Bee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5F4A713D-F6B7-4FB3-AD26-9A1BB4A23DAF(a)microsoft.com... > Me - diehard VB6 user. ....a bit OT, but these guys love(d) VB Classic, too. * Linus Torvalds (Linux) * Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer) * David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby/Rails) * Steve Yegge (Google/Amazon) * Peter Norvig (Google Research Director) * Guido Van Rossum (Python) * James Gosling (Java) * Tim Bray (XML) http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000648.html
From: Ken Halter on 19 Jan 2009 17:17 "Bee" <Bee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5F4A713D-F6B7-4FB3-AD26-9A1BB4A23DAF(a)microsoft.com... > Me - diehard VB6 user. oops... misread my last post/cite. This, though.... no mistakes. '================= The most surprising response, however, was from Linus Torvalds. When asked what the "next big thing" would be in computer programming, here's part of his reply: For example, I personally believe that Visual Basic did more for programming than Object-Oriented Languages did. Yet people laugh at VB and say it's a bad language, and they've been talking about OO languages for decades. And no, Visual Basic wasn't a great language, but I think the easy database interfaces in VB were fundamentally more important than object orientation is, for example.
From: Ralph on 19 Jan 2009 18:01
"Ken Halter" <Ken_Halter(a)Use_Sparingly_Hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23Y3lJNoeJHA.5040(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > "Bee" <Bee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:5F4A713D-F6B7-4FB3-AD26-9A1BB4A23DAF(a)microsoft.com... > > Me - diehard VB6 user. > > oops... misread my last post/cite. This, though.... no mistakes. > > '================= > > The most surprising response, however, was from Linus Torvalds. When asked > what the "next big thing" would be in computer programming, here's part of > his reply: > > For example, I personally believe that Visual Basic did more for > programming than Object-Oriented Languages did. Yet people laugh at VB and > say it's a bad language, and they've been talking about OO languages for > decades. > > And no, Visual Basic wasn't a great language, but I think the easy > database interfaces in VB were fundamentally more important than object > orientation is, for example. > Not sure who or what is getting paraphrase/summarized here, but these comments are extraordinary as Visual Basic (language and RAD tool) is nothing if not an Object-Oriented environment. Period. One might complain that the VB language included with the platform is not a complete OOPL as it lacks some constructs available in other OOPLs, but this has no impact on its definition as an Object-Oriented development tool. It should also be noted that VB's "easy database interfaces" are due to the availability of two robust data access object models. -ralph |