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On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 12/3/2011 4:51 AM, Silvio Bierman wrote:
>
>> Luckily I have almost always been in a position where I could work with 
>> my language of choice. In the remaining cases I have been forced to use 
>> languages like Visual Basic (I disagree with other posters that it is 
>> the right tool for anything except for further messing up an existing 
>> VB program),
>
> VB was actually a very good language for what it was intended
> to be used for.
>
> Java, C#, C++ etc. can do a lot of more sophisticated
> stuff.
>
> But the typical business app GUI does not need sophisticated
> stuff.

I don't think that's true, actually. Anything simple can be done in a 
spreadsheet, or Access, FileMaker, or similar. Anything too complex to do 
with one of those is complex enough to benefit from using a real language 
rather than VB.

> But I strongly suspect that one of the reasons is that MS has realized 
> that C# (and VB.NET) is not a good replacement for VB for simple GUI's, 
> so now they are trying with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Interesting thought.

tom

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