[Ilugc] About Linux advocacy in colleges (failed in CEG)

[Sriram Krishnan]

I've actually seen a debugger written in VB. So before you say VB is not
powerful, I would say "think again" Vb+Win32API+COM is a pretty powerful
combination.


Sriram 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Jose Tharayil [mailto:tom at tharayil.com] 
Sent: 06 July 2004 14:45
To: suraj at symonds.net
Cc: ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] About Linux advocacy in colleges (failed in CEG)


> Gopalarathnam V wrote:
> ,----
> | Most geeks don't VB because its an M$ product, and I don't like it 
> | for its elaborated syntax.
> `----
>
> I agree  VB is simpler in  terms of how  its done and it  probably has 
> lesser power  than, say, perl/tk.  But  isn't it a bit  unfair to rate 
> someone as 'non-geek' just because  he/she writes VB code

I totally agree....
this sort of condescending behaviour just is not acceptable


>? I know lots
> of  non-geek,  below-average  perl  programmers  and  some  "good"  VB  
>programmers.

extremely true
>
> IMHO, Its their involvement  and approach that decides whether someone 
> is a geek. Not what tools they use.
>
> cheers,
>
>   -Suraj
>
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