[geeks] Oh my god...

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:24:54AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 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?

Pfizer.  Armstrong World Industries. Fog Creek Software (OK, they aren't
that big, but their leader, Joel Spolsky, has a fair amount of fame in
certain less acedemic programming circles).  Ryder.  Microhelp (Their
uninstaller product was written in VB, but I think the company has gone
out of business).  These are just off the top of my head.

Lots of companies are looking for VB programmers, which I take to mean
they do projects in VB, but that doesn't mean they are major projects.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd