Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java developers Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 07:32:49 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 35 Message-ID: <31367963.319.1322839969264.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prjr26> References: Reply-To: comp.lang.java.programmer@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.239.45.130 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1322840055 4843 127.0.0.1 (2 Dec 2011 15:34:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:34:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.239.45.130; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10425 Rajiv Gupta wrote: > curixinfotech said: >=20 >> why java [sic] is the language of choice for Developers [sic]. >=20 > If you are truly serious about becoming a developer then you should=20 Hard to tell. He didn't ask a question or even make a statement. > make a deep study of Visual Basic. Visual Basic is supported by a=20 > proper software company (not by hobbyist maintainers) so the quality is= =20 > very good. >=20 > Visual Basic is very advanced language (it doesn't require line=20 > numbers) and it supports structured programming. You cannot go wrong=20 > with it. Funny. (Thus baiting another Language War.) You actually can go horribly wrong with Visual Basic. I don't mean just in= the way you can with any language, but in ways specific to Visual Basic, l= ike for example using it for enterprise programming of mainframe back ends. Which you can't. Like every computer language, Visual Basic has use cases and it has scenari= os for which it is utterly inappropriate. Don't listen to people who tell = you that "Language X" is the One True Way. Follow the advice of the people= here who (well, most of whom) recommended learning more than one language. --=20 Lew