argh my eyes

here are obviously some excellent VB.NET programmers out there

this is a stupid comment. we are talking about differences in syntax here. the language doesnt make an OO coder good or bad!

Get your pedanticism on: I meant "there are obviously some excellent programmers who use VB.NET"


I think Hogfather's comment really gets to "why would a good developer choose to use VB.NET?". One reason given here is "my employer chose it", which for me just sets off alarm bells about the employer but clearly not everyone shares that opinion.

Any other reasons?

which for me just sets off alarm bells about the employer

there are alot of vb.net jobs going as people are upscaling from vb6 and asp classic. before you go on about how s*** vb6 is, something like 60-80% of busniess apps 10years ago where all vb6.

now, before you go on about 10years is along time ago in computer industries, alot of real world clients (such as UK & US top 5 law firms) are just deploying windows xp and office 2003.

other reasons... thres no difference in performance between c# and vb.net. so if an application needs to be built then theres no reason not to choose vb.net.

Worth a re-run!
http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/steverowe/WindowsLiveWriter/ProgrammingLanguageHierarchy_1489F/programmer_hierarchy[7].gif

there is a little box at the top of that chart above all of them that is missing

it's called 'everyone else'

That chart is missing a few links. There's a fair C#/Java rivalary mid way up there, and you could probably extend that to being Java/C#/PHP.

I think the other problem is that there's two types of Java programmers: Ones who use enterprise frameworks like EE, Hibernate and Spring etc, and ones who deal with 'true' Java and stuff like SWT.

Flex seems to be altogether omitted from that chart, and can frankly be anywhere from VB level Multimedia dropouts to Enterprise Java people.

raven: it's not supposed to be a serious chart

I think raven exists in the third dimension of that chart which is perpendicular to his screen wherein he is even better than its creator

:(
how come my camels got nuked?

ASCII camel toe?

jim: it's not supposed to be a serious reply

raven: it's not supposed to be a serious chart

Really? Then why do so many programmers seem to actually follow it? :)

raven: g'day

LOL Ruby programmers...