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Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic

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Am 26.03.2014 00:12, schrieb Tom Shelton:

>>   Just as they gave C# slightly more power than VB.Net.
>> The vanity of many C++ programmers requires that they
>> be able to pretend to be Paul Bunyan, even if they're
>> only being allowed to trim the hedges.
>>
> LOL.  Inferiority complex much?

Tom, the guys whith the inferiority complex are not the
ones who still use VB6 (we're won't to be ridiculed, but
couldn't care less). The guys with the complex are the ones
who thought that "trimmin hedges" would be a good alternative -
those guys are still not good at C++ or C# programming - but love
to point out in VBClassic-Forums how superior their tools are
(although they still have no clue how to use their toys properly).

Not sure what drives them guys to constantly re-visit "old places".
I assume this is kind of a Love/Hate-thing, such guys have in addition 
to their inferiority-complex.

> I never said Windows and WinRT are the same thing.  Windows 8
> and Windows RT are the same thing.
>
Blabbery - WinRT is a non-adopted API - it's dead (or soon dead), period.

What people want and need from MS is the full-featured old API and
normal Desktop-Apps. That's the sole reason, the Surface (the version
which runs Win32 on x86) is the only "marginally successful one"
(despite the much higher pricing, compared with the RT-Only-ARM-version).

>> As I understand it, the
>> idea is to find as many acorns containing Prozac
>> as possible, and I win when my squirrel gets blissed
>> out. Is that correct? I can't wait. It sounds like a
>> barrel of laughs. :)
>
> Well, considering an assanine game like "Flappy Bird" was making
> something like $50 G's a day for the developer - that might not be
> such a bad idea :)
>

Tom, we're all anxiously praying for your success in this - I mean,
you considered that idea already for the last two years or so -
well, just write it up with C# - .NET is much more productive than
VB6+COM (as you told us repeatedly) - so much, that I'm wondering now,
why you're not long finished with this - should only take two weeks
or so, to:
- "get rich with MS"
- "though only if you're using the new-super-productive tools"
- "and of course always work against the newest available APIs"
- "always-swim-well-in-front-of-the-bleading-edge-tech-wave-with-us"
- "not using such ancient concepts as 'a Desktop' of course"
- "or god beware ridiculous old tools like VB6 to program for it"
- "your customers will just *looove* Squirrel-Apps on Win-RT...
- "that's of course also the trend for the industry as a whole"

I think I've gathered everything you really wanted to say in this
thread quite compactly above, didn't I?

Now be a good marketer and and consider your job done - invest
more time into learning a new API which has flopped - convince
yourself again and again about the overwhelming success MS'
mobile-concepts had in the industry - I mean, 2% market-share
is really not bad for a newcomer in this field.

Good luck.

Olaf

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      Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-03-23 12:19 -0400
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            Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2014-03-25 20:55 -0600
              Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-03-26 11:06 +0100
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