[geeks] Oh my god...

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 11:09 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>   Eh, I've never seen anything built with it.  Not that I would,
>> necessarily, but I haven't.
>
> Yes, but we've also established that you haven't seen anything written
> in VB.

   True.  But does that invalidate my view as an established 
professional in the industry, or does that cast suspicion on 
Microsoft's marketing claims whose purpose is to make you buy more of 
their stuff?

>   I expect that most new VB projects will be .NET projects in the
> near future, and whether you've seen it or not, there are lots of
> corporations doing VB development.

   Who?  Where?

>>> However, I still don't get what .NET is supposed to give us that the
>>> combination of COM, DCOM, SOAP, and WSL didn't.
>>
>>   Another acronym and another profit center for Microsoft, of course!
>
> Grr.

   Indeed.

     -Dave

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